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...ICANN has already been heavily criticized for adopting a dispute resolution policy that heavily favors the corporate owners of trademarks and weighs against individuals; others fear that ICANN could take steps to reduce the freedom of individuals to protect their privacy or to enforce a company-friendly vision of copyright law, and it would be much easier for special interests to capture a private body than a voter-approved one. Unfortunately, ICANN's undemocratic structure is unlikely to change after the first semi-public elections for board members...
...MPEG Audio Layer-3, was developed by German engineering firm Fraunhofer IIS back in 1987 as a way of compressing CD-quality sound files. The technology made it possible to take songs from a CD and "rip," or convert them into MP3 files, usually in violation of copyright. But even in the mid-'90s, when faster computers and high-bandwidth connections to the Internet made it possible to seek and find MP3 files, ripping CDs was a tedious process...
...perhaps the future of all industries that trade in intellectual property (see following story). Attorneys for the record industry have subpoenaed Fanning's e-mails and taken depositions from him, his uncle and other early Napster employees. Their contention is that Napster is guilty of something called tributary copyright infringement, which means Napster is being accused not of violating copyright itself but of contributing to and facilitating other people's infringement...
Still, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 said yesterday that although students are able to use Napster without restriction, the College does not condone illegal activity--including the download of copyright-protected music...
Given that the College would be required to terminate the network access of students found to be "repeat infringers" of copyright law, Lewis said students should understand the potential great consequences of their actions...