Web Directory

» 'Music Is Not a Loaf of Bread'
   Interview with Wilco, a band that dropped its label and file shared its album, achieving commercial success and Grammy nominations. [Wired]
   http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/11/65688

» Copying Isn't Cool
   "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]
   http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/09/12/file_sharing_one/

» File Sharing: A Debate
   Arguments for and against filesharing, with a focus on trading MP3s.
   http://www.mredkj.com/other/sharing.html

» File-Sharing Getting Bad Rap?
   "A controversial new study by economists at Harvard and the University of North Carolina has found that file-sharing is not the cause of declining CD sales." [Rolling Stone]
   http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5936994/filesharing_getting_bad_rap

» Joel Fights Back
   The story and defense of Joel Tenenbaum who has been accused by the recording industry of sharing seven songs on a P2P network. Includes a repository of the court filings related to the case.
   http://joelfightsback.com/

» LA Times: File 'sharing' or 'stealing'?
   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.
   http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-healey18feb18,0,5092348.story

» MusicUnited.org
   Alliance of various music industry organizations advocating against distributing copyrighted music.
   http://www.musicunited.org/

» The Effect of P2P File-sharing Depends on Popularity
   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]
   http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2005/11/the_effect_of_p.html

» The Pirate's Dilemma
   A blog about the relationship between piracy, youth culture, pop culture and innovation. Information on the book The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Re-invented Capitalism and author and speaker Matt Mason.
   http://www.thepiratesdilemma.com/

» Who Owns Culture?
   Video of Lawrence Lessig's slideshow synchronized with the audio of his presentation.
   http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6122403781064290619

» Yo Ho Ho – Buccanerds Give Studios a Broadside
   Profile of BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay and file-sharing evangelism. [Times Online]
   http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article1289693.ece