September 17, 2003
NY Times: In Court, Verizon Challenges Music Industry's Subpoenas.
Verizon contends that the law was meant to apply only to material that subscribers post on Web sites that reside on computers controlled by Internet providers. The rise of peer-to-peer technology, which lets Internet users find and retrieve files on one another's computers, the company says, was not foreseen by Congress when it passed the law.
News.Com: Intel, Sony prep digital content standard.
The Digital Transmission Content Protection over IP specification is aimed at balancing the interests of consumers, who recoil against restrictions placed on how and where they can use digital content, and copyright owners, who are terrified of piracy.
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