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Monday, November 05, 2001

http://www.ogb.wfu.edu/issue/2001/10.25/news/file.sharing.charges.asp

6 may face file sharing charges
By Will Wingfield, Managing Editor

Over the next few weeks, as many as six students are scheduled to face university charges of violation of university copyright and computing guidelines for illegally sharing a song owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Information Systems said that NetPD, which is investigating Internet piracy for Sony, cited seven instances of copyright violation over file-sharing programs. Each case is for pirating the same song, Michael Jackson’s unreleased single “You Rock My World.” Information Systems was not able to confirm which file-sharing programs were used....


 


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