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Two more students subpoenaed by RIAA, new bill to jail fileswappers

Jon Newton on Dmusic's newsblog says: "The Big Five labels now have the identities of two students suspected of using the computer network at Chicago's Loyola University for file-sharing. Their names were handed over to the RIAA by school authorities. This represents shot three in the Big Five record labels' all-out war against file-sharers. Shot two came yesterday (July 16) when Hollywood stalwart rep Howard Berman and another democrat, rep John Conyers, introduced a bill cited as the Author, Consumer, and Computer Owner Protection and Security (ACCOPS) Act of 2003 which in effect says anyone nailed for file sharing could be jailed."

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