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“Briefly buoyed by their Supreme Court victory on file sharing, Hollywood and the recording industry are on the verge of confronting more technically sophisticated opponents.

“At a computer security conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, an Irish software designer described a new version of a peer-to-peer file-sharing system that he says will make it easier to share digital information anonymously and make detection by corporations and governments far more difficult.”

John Markoff. New File-Sharing Techniques Are Likely to Test Court Decision. The New York Times. Aug. 1, 2005.

See also:

Richard Stallman. The Right to Read. GNU.org. February 1997.

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