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Crackdown on Piracy Hits Barrier

John Barrett, an analyst at market research firm Parks Associates in Dallas, is more skeptical. At a recent conference in Universal City, he asked a panel of college students about file sharing and piracy. With so many of their friends illegally downloading, the students said, they were confident they would never be punished.

"There wasn't a kid on that group," he said, "that had the least bit of fear."

From the article "Crackdown on Piracy Hits Barrier," by Lorenza Muñoz and Jon Healey.

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