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donderdag, juli 04, 2002

 
File-Trading Furor Heats Up
In Wired een aardig stuk over de nieuwste strategie van de RIAA tegen MP3-downloaders:
In 1991, Willie Nelson's picture splashed across newspapers as government representatives emptied his house, preparing for an auction that would help him settle a $9 million tax bill. Nelson forgot to do some addition around April, so the Internal Revenue Service came calling with a boatload of press behind in tow.
The site of a star standing outside an empty home sends an unmistakable message to Americans: cheat and we'll catch you. On Wednesday, recording industry executives pulled a similar stunt, leaking word to The Wall Street Journal that they were zeroing in on a plan to sue the most aggressive file-traders.
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