-"#33</ulink>. Reps. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and Howard L. Berman "
-"(D-Calif.) have introduced a bill that would treat unauthorized on-line "
-"copying as a felony offense with punishments ranging as high as five years "
-"imprisonment; see Jon Healey, <quote>House Bill Aims to Up Stakes on "
-"Piracy,</quote> <citetitle>Los Angeles Times</citetitle>, 17 July 2003, "
-"available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link "
-"#34</ulink>. Civil penalties are currently set at $150,000 per copied "
-"song. For a recent (and unsuccessful) legal challenge to the RIAA's demand "
-"that an ISP reveal the identity of a user accused of sharing more than 600 "
-"songs through a family computer, see <citetitle>RIAA</citetitle> "
-"v. <citetitle>Verizon Internet Services (In re. Verizon Internet "
-"Services)</citetitle>, 240 F. Supp. 2d 24 (D.D.C. 2003). Such a user could "
-"face liability ranging as high as $90 million. Such astronomical figures "
-"furnish the RIAA with a powerful arsenal in its prosecution of file "
-"sharers. Settlements ranging from $12,000 to $17,500 for four students "
-"accused of heavy file sharing on university networks must have seemed a mere "
-"pittance next to the $98 billion the RIAA could seek should the matter "
-"proceed to court. See Elizabeth Young, <quote>Downloading Could Lead to "
-"Fines,</quote> redandblack.com, August 2003, available at <ulink "
-"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #35</ulink>. For an example of "
-"the RIAA's targeting of student file sharing, and of the subpoenas issued to "
-"universities to reveal student file-sharer identities, see James Collins, "
-"<quote>RIAA Steps Up Bid to Force BC, MIT to Name Students,</quote> "
-"<citetitle>Boston Globe</citetitle>, 8 August 2003, D3, available at <ulink "
-"url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link #36</ulink>. <placeholder "
-"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/>"
+"#35</ulink>. For an example of the RIAA's targeting of student file sharing, "
+"and of the subpoenas issued to universities to reveal student file-sharer "
+"identities, see James Collins, <quote>RIAA Steps Up Bid to Force BC, MIT to "
+"Name Students,</quote> <citetitle>Boston Globe</citetitle>, 8 August 2003, "
+"D3, available at <ulink url=\"http://free-culture.cc/notes/\">link "
+"#36</ulink>. <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/> <placeholder "
+"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/>"
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