Word: act
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...also hired NetPD, a consulting firm, to monitor Napster for users who illegally traded its music. Metallica brought the resulting list of more than 300,000 users to Napster's attention and insisted that these users be banned from its service under the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law passed in 1998 to deal with digital media...
...believe that Yale is an Internet service provider and has no liability under the [Digital Millennium Copyright Act]," Yale General Counsel Dorothy Robinson told the Yale Daily News last month...
...know and not to act is not to know," he told the crowd, quoting an ancient Chinese proverb...
...been a long time coming, but the 30-year-old Clean Air Act has struck a decisive blow against Big Oil. Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping new anti-pollution measures that would drastically reduce emissions from trucks and buses and eliminate a significant percentage of the carcinogens and asthma-inducing inhalants currently poisoning the national atmosphere. This is a big step for the once-timid EPA; Wednesday's declaration is an uncharacteristically forceful move, setting the agency on a collision course with the powerful (and increasingly irritable) oil industry. While regulators would continue to grant smaller refiners...
...dissection on the tragedy. After all, no law enforcement report was likely to get into the minds of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. But the fact that the first detailed account of the massacre last April 20 fails to address other "whys" - why law enforcement took so long to act, why it took so long to get to some of the wounded - is bound to increase efforts to find resolution through the courts...