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Privacy Next Target of Recording Industry

Online privacy faces new challenges as the recording industry may start targeting individual users to stem the trade of pirated music. Experts predict that the Napster decision will result in increased pressure on ISPs to monitor networks and address individual users accused of trading copyright protected files.

Napster Fallout: Privacy Loses?, Wired, March 6, 2001.