-"For an excellent summary, see the report prepared by GartnerG2 and the "
-"Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, <quote>Copy- "
-"right and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World,</quote> 27 June 2003, "
-"available at link #33. 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 link #34. 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, 26 August 2003, available at link #35. 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 link #36."