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Q&A: Music and file-sharing (Science/Technology, 7 articles)
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No sooner had Britain's six biggest internet service providers (ISPs) agreed to monitor illegal file sharing than the web was abuzz with suggestions to get around the scheme. The BPI, representing Britain's music companies, announced a "three-step" sanction procedure, in which internet connections would be suspended on the second copyright infringement and cancelled at the third. Hundreds of thousands of UK net users could soon find a letter on their mat from their net supplier saying their account is being used to illegally share files. When Virgin Media started writing to some of its customers saying that they had been downloading illegally, it was able to include the date and time of the activity as if it were issuing a speeding ticket. People who illegally download films and music will be cut off from the internet under new legislative proposals to be unveiled next week. Internet service providers (ISPs) will be legally required to take action against users who access pirated material, The Times has learnt. The satellite television company, which also offers broadband access, is teaming up with Universal Music to offer digital access to hundreds of thousands of songs for a monthly fee.
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Facebook to help some programmers, punish others :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Technology (Science/Technology, 6 articles)
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SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Inc. is introducing more tools to help the software applications fueling the online hangout's popularity and is promising to intensify its efforts to weed out programs that violate its rules for protecting users' privacy. More than 30,000 applications have been designed to run on Facebook since the company opened its site to outside developers 14 months ago. Hasbro Inc, the Rhode Island company that owns the word game's North American rights, sued the creators of the Scrabulous program today, less than two weeks after the release of an authorized version of Scrabble for Facebook.
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