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Tuesday, December 03, 2002
Pirated Files Clog College Networks - Rebecca Trounson, LA
Alex Honigman can't remember exactly what he was looking for on the Web that October night, but he insists it wasn't what he ended up with: the latest Clint Eastwood movie. Nonetheless, when the Pitzer College junior clicked open the file containing scenes from the Eastwood thriller "Blood Work," he tripped an electronic alarm system at Warner Bros., the film's producer, which then notified his Claremont school. In no time, Honigman, 20, was suspended briefly from the campus computer network and required to write a letter of apology to the Hollywood studio. Pitzer administrators also warned him that a second offense could bring a year's suspension from the network.
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