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Introduction
Copyright and copywrong
"Web piracy"
The N.E.T. Act in the United States
The Church of Scientology cases
The Shetland News hyperlink case
"The day the sites went out in Georgia"
The Digital Object Identifier
Music copyright on the Internet
Are they coming to take me away?
The most recent case
concerning journalists, January 1998
Webography (references)
Procedure (what I did)
In 1994 a student escaped indictment for copyright violation, although he had maintained an electronic bulletin board where copies of programs for more than USD 1 million had been downloaded during a period of six weeks. He had received no financial gain from his activities, and there was nothing in the copyright law about that.
The Senate and the House of Representatives both discussed ways to change the law. In November 1997 the House and the Senate approved the bill for the No Electronic Theft Act, or N.E.T., which makes it illegal to make or distribute ten or more copies of copyrighted works during a 180-day period, if the total retail value is more than USD 1,000.
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