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Gov. Davis to sign entertainment industry-friendly bills

According to the articles:

"LOS ANGELES - With the recall election less than two weeks away, Gov. Gray Davis said Thursday he will soon sign into law entertainment industry-friendly bills aimed at curtailing the illegal copying of film and music, and reforming labor laws on child actors."
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House Panel OKs Bill To Protect Government From File-Sharing Risks

According to the articles:

"The Government Network Security Act of 2003, which now goes to the full House, would require federal agencies to develop plans to protect government PCs from the risks of file sharing."
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Long live file sharing, death to bland culture

According to the articles:

"File-sharing is a rejection of the social power of bland culture. Why should we pay for crap?

It's not that I don't want artists to get paid for their work. This is not about artists: It's about crap. File-sharing of pop music reflects a refusal of price-gouging for crap, for what is largely a disposable product anyway."
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Brownback Questions RIAA's Senate Testimony

According to the articles:

"U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R.-Kan.) said late Wednesday the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) decision to drop a copyright infringement lawsuit against a Boston grandmother calls into the question the RIAA's testimony last week before the Senate Commerce Committee that the music industry was not unfairly targeting alleged downloaders. Sarah Seabury Ward was one of 261 people identified and sued by the RIAA through the controversial subpoena authority of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). RIAA President Cary Sherman told the Commerce Committee on September 17 that only people who had downloaded more than 1,000 copyrighted songs were targeted in the dragnet.

But on Friday, the RIAA withdrew its suit against 66-year-old Ward, who was accused of downloading more than 2,000 songs, in what the music trade group called a "gesture of good faith." Ward uses a Macintosh computer, which is incapable of running the peer-to-peer network software she was accused of using to pilfer such songs as rapper Trick Daddy's "I'm a Thug.""
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Reston Firm Sees Future in Fighting Movie Piracy

According to the articles:

"Cinea Inc. is only three years old and some of its ideas about video and film piracy protection are years away from commercial use. But the film industry's growing alarm over piracy put Cinea squarely in the sights of acquirers"
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Studios Moving to Block Piracy of Films Online

According to the articles:

"If Hollywood executives have learned anything watching their peers in the music business grapple with online file sharing, it is how not to handle a technological revolution."
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Upstart Labels See File Sharing as Ally, Not Foe

According to the articles:

"Mr. Egan, the co-owner and president of the independent music label Vagrant Records, had heard about the software — which let users trade songs over the Internet without paying artists or labels — and could not imagine how such a setup could benefit his business."
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