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MySpace hopes to turn free songs into needed cash

BEVERLY HILLS, California - In 2004, when MySpace was still getting going, recording label executive Courtney Holt noticed that musicians were using the Web site to connect more intimately with their fans, through detailed blogs and behind-the-scenes photos. So Holt arranged to meet MySpace’s founders.

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File-sharers shrug off Pirate Bay ruling

SAN FRANCISCO/STOCKHOLM - Record and film companies around the world were celebrating a Swedish court verdict Friday that could put in jail the founders of The Pirate Bay, one of the largest file- sharing sites on the internet, for a year.

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Phishers get more wily as cyber-crime grows

WASHINGTON - Phishing scams have grown up from the unsophisticated swindles of the past in which fake Nigerian princes e-mailed victims, who would get a big windfall if they just provide their bank account number.

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