The amendment makes it a crime for anyone to deploy peer-to-peer technology that facilitates the exchange of copyrighted material online.

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Typically these are created when two existing strains infecting an animal such as a bird or a pig exchange genetic material.

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File-exchange sites like Gnutella and Hotline, which act as matchmakers for people who want to exchange movies and other copyrighted material, aren't nearly as easy to use as the popular music-exchange program Napster.

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In addition, the Securities and Exchange Commission must expand its disclosure requirements to include material non-financial concerns of the type described above.

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