-<!-- f2. --> For an excellent summary, see the report prepared by GartnerG2 and the
-Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School,
- "Copyright
-and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World," 27 June 2003, available
-at
-<ulink url="http://free-culture.cc/notes/">link #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, "House Bill Aims to Up Stakes on Piracy,"
-Los Angeles Times, 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 RIAA v. Verizon Internet Services (In re. Verizon Internet Services), 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, "Downloading Could Lead to Fines," 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, "RIAA Steps Up
-Bid to Force BC, MIT to Name Students," Boston Globe, 8 August 2003,
-D3, available at
+<!-- f2. -->
+For an excellent summary, see the report prepared by GartnerG2 and the
+Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School,
+<quote>Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World,</quote> 27 June 2003,
+available at
+<ulink url="http://free-culture.cc/notes/">link
+#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
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