In yet another set of related cases, in September 2003, the RIAA ( trade association of the music industry ) filed suit in civil court against several private individuals who had shared large numbers of files with Kazaa ; most of these suits were settled with monetary payments averaging $ 3, 000.

Kazaa Lite Resurrection ( KLR ) appeared almost immediately after Kazaa Lite development was stopped in August 2003.

On August 11, 2003, they sent a letter to Google requesting that all links to the Kazaa Lite application be removed from their database.

During December 2003 Sharman emailed the owners of all sites hosting a copy of Kazaa Lite, threatening legal action if it was not removed.

In December 2003, Sharman shut down Kazaa Lite K ++ by serving DMCA notices to all the server owners that hosted the software.

The Recording Industry Association of America launched its first lawsuits on 8 September 2003, against individuals who illegally downloaded music files from the Kazaa FastTrack network.

Kazaa was the main beneficiary of the demise of the first version of Napster in the middle of 2001 and by the beginning of 2003 over 60 million copies had been downloaded.

By 2003, Kazaa was the ninth most popular website in the world ( source ??

In 2003, a judge in Los Angeles found that Kazaa was subject to US copyright rules.

* Wired article on Kazaa published February 2003

In January 2003, the Armenian government and United Company RUSAL signed an investment cooperation agreement, under which United Company RUSAL ( which already owned a 76 % stake ) acquired the Armenian government's remaining 26 % share of RUSAL ARMENAL aluminum foil mill, giving RUSAL 100 % ownership of RUSAL ARMENAL.

* 2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.

* 2003 – The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo ( now called Behchoko ).

On March 14, 2002, an agreement was signed to transform the FRY into a loose state union called Serbia and Montenegro ; it took effect on February 4, 2003.

In 2002 Chile signed an association agreement with the European Union ( comprising FTA, political and cultural agreements ), in 2003, an extensive free trade agreement with the United States, and in 2004 with South Korea, expecting a boom in import and export of local produce and becoming a regional trade-hub.

Chile has signed free trade agreements ( FTAs ) with a whole network of countries, including an FTA with the United States that was signed in 2003 and implemented in January 2004.

After two years of negotiations, the United States and Chile signed an agreement in June 2003 that will lead to completely duty-free bilateral trade within 12 years.

A protocol concerning Ethiopian access to Port Sudan was signed between the two countries 5 March 2000 in Khartoum, and this protocol and its subsequent amendment were ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 3 July 2003.

On August 18, 2003, the Liberian Government, the rebels, political parties, and leaders from civil society signed a peace agreement that laid the framework for a two-year National Transitional Government of Liberia.

In April 2003, the plan was updated and Quebec signed onto it.

On 16 April 2003 in Athens, Miller, together with Cimoszewicz, signed the Accession Treaty, bringing Poland into the European Union.

The Burma Freedom and Democracy Act ( BFDA ), passed by Congress and signed by the President in 2003, includes a ban on all imports from Burma, a ban on the export of financial services to Burma, a freeze on the assets of certain Burmese financial institutions, and extended visa restrictions on Burmese officials.

In 2003, the two countries signed the Agreement for the Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investments

* Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty ( SORT or Moscow Treaty )— signed 2002, into force 2003: A very loose treaty that is often criticized by arms control advocates for its ambiguity and lack of depth, Russia and the United States agreed to reduce their " strategic nuclear warheads " ( a term that remain undefined in the treaty ) to between 1, 700 and 2, 200 by 2012.

The book was rejected by publishers in Sweden prompting an open letter in 2003 defending Johnstone's book ( and her right to publish ) which was signed by, among others, Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali and John Pilger: " We regard Diana Johnstone ’ s Fools ’ Crusade as an outstanding work, dissenting from the mainstream view but doing so by an appeal to fact and reason, in a great tradition.

It opened on 28 January 2003, and became current on 1 March 2006 ; as of 30 November 2011, 20 States have signed and ratified the Protocol, and 15 others have signed, but not yet ratified it ( including Canada and South Africa ).

Two of the English speaking states in Europe, Ireland and the United Kingdom, have not signed the additional protocol, ( the third, Malta, signed on 28 January 2003, but has not yet ratified it ).

On 6 July 2003, in response to a proposal to send 300 police and 2, 000 troops from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea to Guadalcanal, warlord Harold Keke announced a ceasefire by faxing a signed copy of the announcement to the Solomons Prime Minister, Allan Kemakeza.

The Nice Treaty was signed on 26 February 2001 and came into force on 1 February 2003 which made the final preparations before the 2004 enlargement to 10 new members.

He was one of numerous notable public figures, including the linguist Noam Chomsky and the actress Susan Sarandon, who signed the " Not In My Name " declaration opposing the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

On 20 July 2003, Bergkamp signed a one-year extension at the club.

In 2003, Todd Beamer's widow Lisa, along with co-author Ken Abraham, wrote a book about Todd and her attempts to deal with her grief over his death, Let's Roll!

The Osirak deal became a controversy again in 2002 – 2003, when an international military coalition led by the United States invaded Iraq and forcibly removed Hussein's government from power.

Also Psyche signed a new North American album deal with US label Metropolis and released a new best of spanning 1991 – 2003 under the name of " Legacy ".

The WNBA Players Association threatened to strike in 2003 if a new deal was not worked out between players and the league.

The deal was approved by federal judge Jed Rakoff in July 2003.

In 2003, the Timberwolves made two strong offseason moves, trading away forward Joe Smith and injured guard Terrell Brandon in a multi-player deal for Ervin Johnson, Sam Cassell and embattled guard Latrell Sprewell.

A port of the game for the Game Boy Advance, titled Space Channel 5: Ulala's Cosmic Attack, was developed by ART. co and released by THQ in June 2003 as part of a deal to make GBA games based on Sega properties.

At a meeting of the 19-member Rio group in May 2003, Toledo proposed developing a joint strategy to deal with drug trafficking, but pressure from Washington, which preferred bilateral efforts, helped kill the notion.

In 2003, Chrysler signed Celine Dion to a $ 14 million deal to endorse their cars.

Lopatcong Township was featured in a 2003 article in The New York Times which discussed problems of public school financing in suburban communities and various strategies communities have adopted to deal with the problem.

On June 12, 2003, the dispute ended with the firefighters accepting a pay deal worth 16 percent over three years linked to changes to working conditions.

Tensions were raised again in 2004, when the FBU and local authority employers clashed over whether the deal brokered in 2003 was being honoured.

In October 2003, it was announced that Penthouse magazine was being put up for sale as part of a deal with its creditors.

The " Nickelodeon on Viva Video " is selected DVD's and VCD's featuring Nickelodeon shows distributed by Viva Video in the Philippines after the distribution deal with Magnavision Home Video in 2003.

In 2003, São Paulo made a deal with Spanish amateur side Santangelo Club Aficionado that resulted in the Spanish club changing its name to São Paulo Madrid.

In 2003, he proposed that the European Union should appoint a high-level coordinator with ambassadorial rank to deal with the AIDS epidemic.

Two days after Shinseki testified, Wolfowitz said to the House Budget Committee on February 27, 2003: There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq.

Ivanov played a key role in mediating a deal between Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze and opposition parties during Georgia's " Rose Revolution " in 2003.

A problem that arose, however, was that this could lead to a good deal of time-wasting if Web browsing was used in an unstructured way ( Davies 1997: pp. 42 – 43 ), and language teachers responded by developing more structured activities and online exercises ( Leloup & Ponterio 2003 ).

It was initially reported that Liverpool and Owen were close to agreeing a new deal in the summer of 2003.

UNESCO organized an emergency meeting of antiquities experts on April 17, 2003 in Paris to deal with the aftermath of the looting and its effects on the global art and antiquities market.

In April 2003, in the long wake of the September 11 attacks and facing an industry beset by terrorism and hard times, Carty and his executive board were forced to strike a cost-cutting deal with American's labor unions, intended to mitigate AMR's upcoming $ 1 billion first-quarter loss.

GM North America's deal with Holden was to produce a maximum of 18, 000 vehicles per year starting in late 2003 and going through to the end of the 2006 model year.

In April 2003, it was announced that Moreno had reached a deal with The Walt Disney Company to purchase the team for $ 180 million.