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    The high-tech industry has given the thumbs up to sweeping changes to the US patent system approved by the Senate and House committees last week.

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  • Christians, America's concerned women fight P2P

    The Bush administration's top lawyer and the Christian Coalition threw their weight behind the entertainment industry Monday in a closely watched Supreme Court fight over file swapping.

  • U.S. copyright office scrambles to block P2P

    A hotly-contested wrangle in Congress over how to outlaw file-swapping networks just took a new twist.

  • Senator wants to ban P2P networks

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    A major flaw in Windows Media Player 9 could allow an attacker to view and modify media files. This could potentially compromise confidential information for companies that distribute internal announcements via video.

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