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MusicUnited.org - http://www.musicunited.org/
Alliance of various music industry organizations advocating against distributing copyrighted music. |
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LA Times: File 'sharing' or 'stealing'? - http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-healey18feb18,0,5092348.story
Jon Healey writes about the semantic debate over whether copyright infringement is theft, in response to an Op-Ed submission that called for file sharing to be decriminalized. |
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Copying Isn't Cool - http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/09/12/file_sharing_one/
"File sharing isn't just a problem for the music industry. It's a threat to anyone who depends upon intellectual property for a living." By Scott Matthews. [Salon] |
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Who Owns Culture? - http://wilcoworld.net/wired/
Streaming audio and video of a discussion of digital filesharing, part of a library series called "Live From the NYPL." |
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The Effect of P2P File-sharing Depends on Popularity - http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2005/11/the_effect_of_p.html
The hits at the top of the charts lose sales, but the niche artists further down the popularity curve actually benefit from file-trading, according to a Harvard paper on the economics of filesharing. [The Long Tail] |