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...Barnes never dreamed that the long arm of the music industry would reach into his personal computer. Sure, the bus operator from Fresno, Calif., had used Napster to grab music files off the Internet. And when that file-swapping service was put out of business, he switched to its most popular successor, Kazaa. But he was careful not to leave a trace, transferring all his downloaded songs to separate discs. A visiting teenage grandson wasn't so careful, however, and last week Barnes, 50, was slapped with a subpoena from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It alleged that...
Barnes may be a pirate, but he has plenty of company. An estimated 60 million Americans, more than the number of Bush voters in 2000, are using file-sharing networks on the Internet. Until last week it seemed like a safely anonymous pursuit. But then RIAA started subpoenaing colleges and Internet-service providers (ISPs) for the names and addresses of more than 950 computer owners--some of whom, like Barnes, were trafficking in stolen music without knowing...
...dozen? Just one? RIAA, which is trying to put the fear of litigation into as many music pirates as it can, is playing coy. It has declined to say whom it is targeting or how many more subpoenas it plans to issue. So far, though, most of the file sharers it has gone after were dealing in hundreds of tracks, not just a few. "We're focused on the supply side," RIAA president Cary Sherman says. "If you can get at the 10% of people who are offering 90% of the files, that makes a significant dent...
...Arroyo is simultaneously playing good- and bad-cop with her disgruntled grunts. The government charged the mutineers with rebellion and they will also be court martialed. But Arroyo also released $1.8 million for new equipment for the rank and file, and appointed two special commissions to suggest solutions to the rebels' gripes. "Not all of us have been accounted for," warned Antonio Trillanes, one of the mutiny leaders, in a radio interview last week...
Joshua A. Gerstein ’91-’92, a former Crimson crime reporter, helped legislators revise a state law to include university police forces among the organizations that must file daily police logs...