[IP] CYCLES OF VIOLENCE IN THE MUSIC WARS

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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CYCLES OF VIOLENCE IN THE MUSIC WARS

The record industry's options for fighting illegal music downloads from the
Internet include some that may be illegal, such as attacking personal
Internet connections to slow or halt the downloads, or the use of software
called "freeze" that locks up a computer system for a certain minutes or
hours and risks the loss of data, as well as software called "silence" that
would scan a computer's hard drive for pirated music files and attempt to
delete them, at the risk of deleting legitimate music files as well.
Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig, who specializes in Internet
copyright issues, says: "Some of this stuff is going to be illegal. It
depends on if they are doing a sufficient amount of damage. The law has
ways to deal with copyright infringement. Freezing people's computers is
not within the scope of the copyright laws." (New York Times 3 May 2003)

<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/business/04MUSI.html>

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