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Article: COLUMN: Reigning in record companies
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- University Wire
- Article date:
- October 2, 2002
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(Cavalier Daily) (U-WIRE) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- As peer-to-peer file
sharing becomes more popular among Internet users, recording companies
are increasingly trying to lobby Congress to allow them to partake
in active online sabotage. The record companies have come up with
several strategies in an increasing order of severity to try to stay
the flow of online music sharing. Many of these strategies, however,
will prove useless as peer-to-peer networks and individual users
form methods to stymie the influence of the record companies' tactics.
In addition, some of these techniques may prove to be invasions of
privacy and may violate anti-hacking laws. The record ...