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When freshman Elliott Wolf opened his e-mail last week and found a forwarded note from the Motion Picture Association of America, he didn’t think much of it. Sure, he had downloaded some television shows, but he didn’t mind that the Office of Information Technology was telling him the industry wanted him to stop. He did. But when he opened his e-mail this week to find another note from the MPAA, he wasn’t sure what to think. The warning, which applied to TV shows from weeks earlier, was the same as the first, but this time Wolf was armed with a slew of research. He was willing to quit sharing his files over the Internet because, as he said, “it’s just not worth it.” But the prospect of a legal fight with the MPAA intrigued him. “What the MPAA is yelling at me about, at Duke about, is really ambiguous,” Wolf said. Because the MPAA warning is about television shows, which are initially broadcast free of charge, Wolf thinks the industry is on questionable legal ground. He has contacted independent activist groups to help him figure out if the same court rulings that made VCRs legal in the 1980s protect downloading...
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