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Piracy is Your Friend - http://www.maui.net/~zen_gtr/zgzinepg4.html
A manifesto for musicians who want to make money in the new economy. Asserts that piracy is a phony issue that record labels are hyping in order to rip off artists. |
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Free Music - http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/freemusic.html
Supports the Free Music Philosophy, the idea that all people should have the freedom to copy, distribute, and modify music for personal, noncommercial purposes. FAQ, articles, suggested further reading, links to related sites. |
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Boycott-Riaa.com - http://www.boycott-riaa.com/
Organization rebutting arguments of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and writing critiques of the industry lobbyists' attempts to control music sharing and copying. With background information, news, essays, and links. |
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News.com - File sharing legal in Canada - http://www.news.com/2100-1027_3-5182641.html
Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled. |
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The Droplift Project - http://www.droplift.org
Anti-copyright collective of musicians using samples from popular culture to create challenging and subversing audio collage. Information about fair use and copyright issues in music, along with free MP3 downloads. |
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APIG inquiry into Digital Rights Management - http://www.apcomms.org.uk/apig/current-activities/apig-inquiry-into-digital-rights-management.html
Details of the investigation and subsequent report by the UK Parliament's 'All Party Internet Group' into DRM systems in the music industry. Evidence was taken from campaigners and interested parties from all sides of the debate. |
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Beyondthecommons - http://www.beyondthecommons.com/
Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, copyright, and performing rights. |
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Policing Pirates in the Networked Age - http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-438es.html
A professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas lists reasons why record industry experts failed to prove their assertion that Napster was gutting industry revenues. |
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Business Week - Did Big Music Really Sink the Pirates? - http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040116_9177_tc024.htm
Surveys showing that lawsuits have greatly reduced file-sharing may be seriously flawed. By some measures, swaps are actually escalating. |
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Business Week - Big Music's Worst Move Yet - http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040127_2819_tc047.htm
The RIAA's newest aggressive tactics and legal assault on file swappers is pushing traders to encrypted networks, where file trading will mushroom as well as be untraceable. |
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Salon - Can Anyone Stop the Music Cops? - http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/17/brownback_bill/index_np.html
As Hollywood wins one court case after another, one Republican senator is suggesting that maybe it's time for some new laws -- that protect consumers instead of entertainment companies. |
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NPR : DJ's 'Grey Album' Spurs Dispute - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1722774
DJ Dangermouse (Brian Burton) took vocals from rapper Jay-Z's "The Black Album," mixed them with instrumentals from The Beatles (known to all as The White Album), and came up with "The Grey Album." It wasn't made for commercial release, but the mixes got Internet play. EMI - the label controlling Beatles music - took legal action, and Web sites recently mounted a protest. Joel Rose reports. [7:42 streaming audio broadcast] |
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We Hate the RIAA - http://riaa.freecyberzone.com/
Updates and forum on RIAA actions. |
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PCWorld.com - P2P Companies Take Aim at the RIAA - http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112677,00.asp
A new group criticizes the recording industry for blaming consumers instead of its own failures. |
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File Sharing Doesn't Affect Films and Music Sales - http://www.webspawner.com/users/jiminyjose123/index.html
Argues that P2P doesn't threaten music, musicmaking or musicians because sales are at all time highs. |
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Salon - File sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty - http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/13/liebowitz/
An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't, and he doesn't know why. |
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The Globe and Mail - Copy This: Up With Downloading - http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040318/COCOPY18/Comment/Idx
Canadian article by an industry songwriter who examines both sides of the argument and sees file-trading as a consumer revolt and an explicit demand for change. |
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Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War - http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/article_633.html
Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs. |
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Downhill Battle - http://www.downhillbattle.org/
Non-profit organization promoting a fairer music industry. News, links, and action alerts. |
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Grey Tuesday - Free the Grey Album - http://www.greytuesday.org/
Site organizing and then reporting on the results of the 24 February, 2004 protest against actions censoring the Grey Album by DJ Danger Mouse. |