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Opinion: Microsoft's war waged with FairUse4WM 
Engadget | by Ryan Block | Sun, Nov 12
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The critical importance of the subpoena power to Microsoft's case against Viodentia explains the otherwise-mysterious question of why Microsoft has filed a suit for copyright infringement rather than for circumvention of DRM. The subpoena power is a little-noticed feature that the...
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