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Entertainment & Sports

Aug. 18, 2009

Record Breakers

Although record labels face hefty obstacles in trying to prevent piracy, it does not appear that they will be giving up anytime soon, write Rami S. Yanni and Jerod Partin.

By Rami S. Yanni and Jerod Partin

On July 31, after a brief deliberation, a federal jury issued its ruling in only the second case of its kind to go to trial - a case brought by the Recording Industry Association of America against an individual user, in this case Ph.D. student Joel Tenenbaum, for copyright infringement as a result of his illegal downloading of 30 copyright-protected songs using the peer-to-peer file-sharing network Kazaa. Last June, a fe...

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