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Net File-Swappers Snap Up Windows Source Code Fri Feb 13, 3:50 PM ET By Bernhard Warner and Lucas van Grinsven LONDON/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Internet users on Friday were ferociously downloading pirate versions of Microsoft Corp's Windows source code, stoking concerns hackers and virus writers could use it for a new wave of cyber attacks. The world's largest software maker alerted the public on Thursday that parts of its valuable source code for its Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems had been leaked to various online file-sharing networks. Microsoft said the released code amounted to a fraction of the entire...

 The mood among campus file-swappers By Sumir MeghaniMay 14, 2003, 4:00 AM PT The Recording Industry Association of America recently stepped up its effort to combat music sharing by suing four university students who used their college networks to run file-sharing services.But at Stanford University--as well as at other colleges and universities around the country--students are growing increasingly perturbed by what they see as an attempt by the record labels to infringe on their legitimate right to make copies of digital media. This is not a group to alienate. The RIAA's own statistics show that almost one-third of music...