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Saturday, August 10, 2002

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/491161p-3919652c.html

Overseas-based Web sites make copyright enforcement difficult
JON HEALEY, Los Angeles Times

Despite the music industry's intensifying battle against online piracy, a new crop of Web sites are brazenly offering entire pirated CDs for free downloading even before they are released. Two of these sites - Listen4ever and 21st Century MP3 - recently offered complete versions of forthcoming albums by such top acts as Bruce Springsteen, Linkin Park, Def Leppard and R. Kelly. The sites support themselves by selling pop-up and banner advertisements for a wide variety of companies, ranging from online casinos to Dell computers....


 


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