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COPYRIGHT 2005 Investor's Business Daily, Inc.
Byline: BRIAN DEAGON
Movie and music moguls are out to get John and Jane Doe, possibly millions of them, for costing them billions in losses each year.
On a typical day John Doe opens a free software program on his computer and within minutes can locate and download plenty of songs. He pays nothing; they aren't legally his to own, but that's the freewheeling frontier of the Internet.
Some 900 million songs are downloaded this way each month, enough to fill 180,000 Apple iPods.
The entertainment industry has filed more than 8,000 lawsuits against these scofflaws.
But it's also angling for bigger fish -- the companies that provide the software that enable the file swapping to happen.
On March 29, the Supreme Court will hear arguments...
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