In 1987 the Court dealt a death knell to the denial of services fraud doctrine, limited the mail and wire fraud statutes to protection of tangible property rights and challenged Congress to fix the problem if it wished to do so.

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With this Supreme Court case, copyright owners are now demanding their rights supercede the rights of owners of actual tangible property.

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