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PROS and CONS:
File Sharing: It's Music to our Ears
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a description of options for compensating artists in an MP3/P2P world.
Anti-Piracy
Arguments against music piracy from the trade group (RIAA) that represents the U.S. recording industry.
DEVELOPMENTS:
College Students Urged to Stop Illegal Downloads. Reuters, March 1, 2007
The RIAA sends a new round of threatening letters to U.S. universities.
Illegal Music File-Sharers Targeted By Fresh Wave of Legal Action. ifpi, April 4, 2006
Legal crackdown on file-sharing internationally, as described by a global recording industry association.
ON THE ECONOMICS OF IT ALL:
The Right Price for Digital Music. Slate, December 5, 2005.
Why 99 cents per song is too much, and too little.
Follow the Money: Who's Really Making the Dough? Electronic Musician, November 1, 2001.
The economics of music: how record companies work and how the money finds its way to artists and everyone else.
SOME RELEVANT SITES TO BROWSE:
Downhill Battle.
A music activism web site.
CD Baby.
A seller of independent CDs: " Musicians send us CDs. We warehouse them, sell them to you, and pay the musicians directly."
iTunes iSbogus.
A critique/parody of Apple's iTunes by the folks at Downhill Battle.
Weed.
An approach to peer-to-peer file sharing that tries to have it both ways. Read the FAQ and try to figure out the scheme.
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