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Interview with Wilco, a band that dropped its label and file shared its album, achieving commercial success and Grammy nominations. [Wired]
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"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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Arguments for and against filesharing, with a focus on trading MP3s.
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"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]
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Alliance of various music industry organizations advocating against distributing copyrighted music.
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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]
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Streaming audio and video of a discussion of digital filesharing, part of a library series called "Live From the NYPL."
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Profile of BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay and file-sharing evangelism. [Times Online]
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