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	Who Owns Culture? URL: http://wilcoworld.net/wired/ ODP description: Streaming audio and video of a discussion of digital filesharing, part of a library series called "Live From the NYPL."
	LA Times: File 'sharing' or 'stealing'? URL: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-healey18feb18,0,5092348.story ODP description: 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. Page title: File âsharingâ or âstealingâ? - Los Angeles Times Page description: A few days ago I came across an Op-Ed submission that called for file sharing to be decriminalized. The editors here decided not to run it, but it intrigued me for a couple of reasons. First, the author, Karl Sigfrid , is a member of the Swedish Parliament from the Moderate party a pro-business party that's akin to this country's Libertarians (except in Sweden they're more than just a fringe group ). Second, although he covered...
	The Effect of P2P File-sharing Depends on Popularity URL: http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2005/11/the_effect_of_p.html ODP description: 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] Page title: The Long Tail: The effect of P2P file-sharing depends on popularity
	MusicUnited.org URL: http://www.musicunited.org/ ODP description: Alliance of various music industry organizations advocating against distributing copyrighted music.
	File Sharing: A Debate URL: http://www.mredkj.com/other/sharing.html ODP description: Arguments for and against filesharing, with a focus on trading MP3s. Page title: File Sharing: A debate - mredkj.com Page description: Arguments for and against file sharing, with a focus on trading MP3s.
	'Music Is Not a Loaf of Bread' URL: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/11/65688 ODP description: Interview with Wilco, a band that dropped its label and file shared its album, achieving commercial success and Grammy nominations. [Wired] Page description: When Wilco released Yankee Hotel Foxtrot online for free in 2001, the album's popularity soared and Wilco became a commercial success. Front man Jeff Tweedy tells Wired News' Xeni Jardin why the music industry is dead wrong about file sharing.
	File-Sharing Getting Bad Rap? URL: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5936994/filesharing_getting_bad_rap ODP description: "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] Page title: Rolling Stone : File-Sharing Getting Bad Rap? Page description: A controversial new study by economists at Harvard and the University of North Carolina has found th...
	Yo Ho Ho â€“ Buccanerds Give Studios a Broadside URL: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article1289693.ece ODP description: Profile of BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay and file-sharing evangelism. [Times Online] Page title: Yo ho ho – buccanerds give studios a broadside - Times Online Page description: First came the pirate radio ships of the 1960s offering new musical thrills to the pop-starved young.
	Copying Isn't Cool URL: http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/09/12/file_sharing_one/ ODP description: "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] Page title: Copying isn't cool - Salon