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Monday, October 15, 2001
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/011011/tech-7 Cornell U. warns students about copyright violation By Leigh McMullan, Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell U. (U-WIRE) ITHACA, N.Y. -- The negative repercussions of illegal file sharing on the Internet have become a reality at Cornell University this fall, as a student faces legal charges after being caught downloading copyrighted material by Sony. "These corporations [Sony and other large media companies] routinely deploy scanning techniques that search the net for digital material for which they hold the rights," said Tracy Mitrano, policy advisor of the Office of Information Technology (OIT), in an e-mail sent out to the Cornell student body. "The picking of certain people is fairly random." "Sony may have just been scanning for a certain song that this student happened to be downloading," Mitrano said in an interview....
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