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    After months of issuing warnings, the music industry finally made good on its threat to file suit against peer-to-peer software company LimeWire.

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    The U.S. Senate on Friday overwhelmingly approved a controversial proposal that would let federal prosecutors file civil lawsuits against suspected copyright infringers, with fines reaching tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

  • Second NetSky worm on the loose

    The second version of a two-day-old virus, NetSky, has started spreading more successfully than its parent, antivirus researchers said on Wednesday.

  • Senators ask P2P companies to police themselves

    A group of Washington lawmakers called on Friday for file-swapping companies to help stop distribution of copyrighted materials and pornography on their networks.

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    Flaws in file-sharing can incriminate unwitting users, tricking them into seeming guilty of hosting copyrighted files.

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