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Other recording companies are cautiously watching the technology, which will be used on a commercial release for the first time next week. Buyers of hip-hop star Anthony Hamilton's “Comin' From Where I'm From” will be able burn three copies per computer and even e-mail songs to a limited number of people, who can then listen to the recordings up to 10 times apiece. The BMG Entertainment album can also be played… Read More

The Recording Industry Association of America is seeking subpoenas, at a rate of 75 a day, to force Internet providers to release the names of customers suspected of downloading bootlegged songs online. It's the music industry's first step toward curbing online piracy at the source — individual computer users. When it gets the names from Internet companies, the industry plans to file civil lawsuits to stop the practice… Read More

Chesterfield, Mo.-based 321 Studios has sold about a half-million copies of its software titles that allow the user to make backup copies of DVD movies to blank DVDs or CDs. Hollywood alleges the company's software functions in a way that is prohibited by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, signed into law by Hollywood-friendly former President Clinton. The DMCA prohibits the circumvention of technological measures put in… Read More