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  • In DMCA war, a fight over privacy

    On May 16, 2002, top executives from the Recording Industry Association of America gathered to celebrate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a controversial law that Congress enacted in hopes of curbing online piracy.

  • RIAA draws civil liberties opposition

    The American Civil Liberties Union is accusing the RIAA of illegally unmasking alleged file-swappers.

  • P2P's little secret

    File swappers hoping to share music and other works online without exposing their identity to the prying eyes of copyright enforcers face a tough choice.

  • Copyright and the Internet: Just Say No to Hollywood

    TV viewers have a contractual obligation to watch commercials? Hollywood studios have a right to hack into computer systems and crash hard drives? Kazaa's Nikki Hemming asks who's to benefit.

  • The Year 2000 in review

    The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.

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