   P2P ArchiveJuly 27, 2006Kazaa Settlement Has Merely "Symbolic Importance"
Ovum analyst Jonathan Arber also concludes, "in terms of actually reducing piracy, people migrated to other file-sharing networks a long time ago."
July 07, 2006File Sharing From a Musician's Point of View
Subtle and fascinating insight from a professional musician, Will Sheff, who used to work for Audiogalaxy.
July 06, 2006Can't Compete With Ownership
Restrictions on use are one of the reasons services like Napster are stumbling in attracting college students. Bill Patry comments on a WSJ article.
July 05, 2006A Year After Grokster, File Sharing More Popular Than Ever
Shutting down peer-to-peer networks was like taking a half-course of antibiotics every six months.
June 26, 2006UK Music Label Petitions to Stop Music Industry Prosecutions
A fine companion to EFF's Stop the RIAA Petition.
June 13, 2006Musicians Get It
A catalog of musicians who understand how to make money in a digital world.
June 07, 2006Hilary Rosen: I Don't Like the RIAA LawsuitsMay 31, 2006RIAA Honchos Interviewed
Feel good about prosecuting grandmothers, optimistic about making radio receivers illegal.
May 29, 2006MPAA Accused of Hiring Hacker
Did the MPAA hire a black hat hacker to get info on Torrentspy.com?
February 07, 2006P2P 2 RMSDecember 22, 2005Music Industry Failing to Halt Illegal Downloads, UK Poll FindsFrench Lawmakers Endorse File-Sharing
The otherwise terrible implementation of Europe's DMCA (the EU Copyright Directive) gets amended to permit file-sharing with an $8.50 compulsory license. Expect sparks to fly in the French Senate.
December 19, 2005Merry Christmas from the RIAA
The recording industry files another 751 lawsuits for the end of the year.
October 06, 2005Napster: The Inside Story
How the recording industry blew years of revenue suing Napster.
October 05, 2005Throwing the Book Right Back At You
An RIAA defendant in Oregon counter-sues with pretty much every law in the book.
September 12, 2005Notes From the Future
Andrew Raff liveblogs voices from all sides at the Future Of Music conference (including EFF's own Fred von Lohmann).
September 07, 2005Sorry, May I Rephrase?
RIAA, apparently a little out of practice having to argue its case, asks for a second oral argument.
September 06, 2005On the Origin of Evidence
Joe Gratz investigates: If the RIAA is allowed to download its own music, how can it use files it downloaded from a P2P user as evidence of infringement?
August 25, 2005Grokking the 'Ster
IPTA blog spots two cites of the Grokster ruling in current court judgements.
August 23, 2005Customers of New UK ISP Get to Share all the Sony Music They Want
And the artists get paid. What an excellent idea!
August 17, 2005Her Day in Court
Defendant fights back against RIAA file-sharing suit, says that it was somebody else. RIAA somewhat dumbstruck.
July 28, 2005Senate Takes Turn Wagging Finger at P2P Post-Grokster
At a hearing held today, several members of the Senate Commerce Committee threatened P2P companies, warning that legislation may be on the way even after the Grokster ruling.
Biz School Lesson #1: Don't Sue Your Best Customers
British market research firm study suggests P2P users buy more digital music online than non-users.
Grokster and the Anarchist in the Library
Copyright and culture guru Siva Vaidhyanathan sits down with Library Journal to discuss the potential effects of Grokster.
July 20, 2005Audio From Your One Stop DC Grokster Shop
Audio is now available from the Congressional Internet Caucus' meeting on Grokster, featuring our own Fred von Lohmann. News.com coverage here.
June 30, 2005Would You Like Some Music Whilst Scrabbling to Discover if Your Software is Legal?
RealNetworks begins "aggressive search-term" campaign to win over those searching for Grokster -- perhaps unaware that the Supremes frowned on Grokster's similiar courting of Napster users.
Present Company Excluded
"A major victory for lawyers everywhere" -- Mark Cuban on the Grokster verdict.
June 29, 2005Don't Stop Grokkin'
Mike Godwin's must-read take on the Grokster decision.
Search Engines Corrupt Our Youth
The GAO was asked to investigate access to porn on P2P networks (tough job). It suggests KaZaA is better than Google for filtering content.
June 20, 2005NYT Surveys Blog Pundits' Opinions on Grokster
Including the v. important perspective of the folks at rec.sports.pro-wrestling.
June 14, 2005An Even-Handed Look at Online Music (PDF)
The OECD with a balanced report concluding that music distribution needs "reevaluation," while the connection between filesharing and any drop in music sales remains unclear.
May 31, 2005Grokster Editorial War Kicks Off in Tampa
We've heard P2P users called thieves, pirates - but music rustlers? If you're a Tampa reader, you might want to step in and point out the other side.
May 16, 2005How TV Filesharing Can Boost Audiences
Just as the MPAA preps for a smackdown of TV BitTorrent sites, Mark Pesce suggests that widespread filesharing may have helped make the new Battlestar Galactica and Dr. Who series mega-hits.
May 12, 2005Music, Movies, and Now Television
The MPAA is now filing lawsuits against sites providing BitTorrrent trackers that include metadata files on TV shows.
May 10, 2005Zappster
Via
Copyfight, Frank Zappa's "proposal" for a music download service - made in 1983.
May 09, 2005What's Good for the Goose...
Roger Dannenberg responds to RIAA President Cary Sherman's op-ed tarring universities for "irresponsible" use of Internet2 with a rebuttal calling the recording industry's own history of "monopolistic suppression of innovation" an irresponsible use of networks.
April 07, 2005Aussies Join Brits in BitTorrent TV
Impatient Australian TV fans are increasingly turning to filesharing when publishers stagger release dates for popular shows.
March 31, 2005A Few Notes From the Grokster Argument
DC appellate attorney/Harvard LLM student Timothy Armstrong's detailed notes and reflections on the day's arguments.
Who's That Guy?
Linda Greenhouse reports on the oral arguments for The New York Times, highlighting the Court's concern for the future innovator -- or as Justice David Souter called him, the "guy sitting in his garage inventing the iPod."
March 30, 2005Supreme Court Campout
This Wired.com article has some great pictures of people camping out on the Supreme Court's steps before the oral argument in Grokster.
March 29, 2005California's Civil War
The LA Times with a great editorial that captures the rift between Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
Post-Argument Coverage of Grokster
The Associated Press with a nice rundown of the day's proceedings.
March 24, 2005Music Sales Rise in US
Even as P2P use blossoms. Hey RIAA - can you spell s-y-m-b-i-o-t-i-c?
March 23, 2005Napster Head Calls for Blanket LicensingConsumer Group Study Supports P2P
A new study from the Consumer Federation of America touts the benefits of file-sharing software and sets the stage for a grassroots push against Big Content.
March 17, 2005French Court Rules in Favor of Downloader
The decision seems to say that downloading movies, copying them to discs, and sharing them with your friends is legally defensible. Imagine that!
March 16, 2005Swedish Warez Bust Reviewed for Privacy Gaffs
A recent server seizure at the Swedish ISP Banhof may have gone afoul of the country's strict privacy laws, as the computers contained personal data on more than 20,000 customers.
UK Man Sued for BitTorrent Site
The kicker is that he's being sued by the Motion Picture Association of *America* for owning the domain of a site he never administered and shut down of his own volition several months ago.
March 09, 2005Filesharer Gets Jail Time Under State Law
A university student in Arizona will be the first to serve jail time under state law for filesharing.
CDT Files Complaint Against Barely Legal Download Sites
The DC-based policy group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate music download websites that trick consumers with claims of legality.
Biting the Hand That Wants to Feed You
Record companies have asked an Australian judge to block the makers of KaZaA from paying labels that *choose* to use the P2P network for distribution.
Use BitTorrent to Get 2.6 Gigs of Free Music
And you won't get in trouble! The organizers of South by Southwest (SXSW), a popular music/film/Internet conference, are using BitTorrent to distribute thousands of songs from its roster of artists performing next week.
March 02, 2005Major Labels Want to Raise Download Prices
They're trying to hit the sweet-spot of $18 per album (which is working really well for CDs). The future of music is not for the faint of heart - or light of wallet.
Poisoning the Well
Ed Felten on a new paper that examines how copyright holders might "poison" P2P networks with bogus files.
Intel Asks Supremes to Protect P2P
Intel's yearly revenue exceeds that of the entire US movie industry.
February 17, 2005BitTorrent Bram Makes TimeOops, Napster Did It Again
A gap in the company's copy protection scheme, coupled with its all-you-can-eat-from-our-tiny-buffet subscription plan, allows current Napster users to experience an inkling of the functionality that everyone enjoyed five years ago.
The Recording Industry: Competitive or Cartel?
Ed Felten says there's a "natural experiment" in progress to let us know.
CNN on Grokster
Pre-show coverage in preparation for next month's main event at the Supreme Court.
P2P Lawsuits and Economies of Scale
This Daily Texan article shares some startling numbers about the RIAA's litigation campaign: they've settled 8,423 suits with an average settlement of $3,000. That's a total of $25,269,000, not a penny of which goes to the artists that the organization claims to speak for.
February 08, 2005Music Industry Sues 83-Year-Old Dead Woman
That's the perfectly descriptive, totally head-shaking headline from the Boston Globe.
Of Media Savants and Cartoon Ferrets
The New York Times writes about the propaganda war between copyright extremists and pro-balance groups.
Another View on Grokster
Public Knowledge's fearless leader Gigi Sohn with a thoughtful op-ed on the importance of Grokster, the return of Induce, and the need for copyright balance.
Calling All Artists
Larry Lessig's most recent Wired column is a stirring call for artists to fight for the future of (their) music.
February 01, 2005Cuban on Grokster
The HDTV king and owner of the Dallas Mavericks weighs in on the coming Supreme Court battle over the future of innovation.
January 26, 2005Felten Takes a Red Pen to Supreme Court Briefs
Two of the amicus briefs filed in support of the content industry demonstrate flawed thinking about technology.
Introducing the Next Evolution in File Sharing
It's called Exeem, and it marries BitTorrent's speed and KaZaA's search capabilities.
"None of This Makes Us Feel Wonderful"
So says a music exec about suing thousands of customers. FYI: It makes us pretty sick too.
Forbes Joins Call for Blanket Licenses on P2P
The most sensible approach to solving the "P2P problem" just got another endorsement.
January 11, 2005LokiTorrents vs. Hollywood
One of the Internet's most popular BitTorrent sites has decided to raise money for its impending legal fight against the MPAA.
RIAA Slapped Again for Ignoring Due Process
No more shotgun lawsuits: another appeals court has ruled that the RIAA must file individual "John Doe" lawsuits against alleged copyright infringers.
January 05, 2005Reason #5,294 to Not Use DRM
Some firms are hiding ads and adware in copy-protected Windows Media Player files.
December 15, 2004BitTorrent Infringers Cross Finnish Line
Finnish police arrested 34 locals associated with a popular BitTorrent download site.
It's a Small World After All
Ed Felten has written a P2P application in 15 lines of code to illustrate the futility of regulating the software. It's called TinyP2P, and it allows users to create "small world" networks for sharing files.
December 10, 2004The BitTorrent Phenomenon
This AP article looks at what happens when the tyranny of bandwith is broken.
Aussie Universities Get Blanket License for Copyright
A large Australian rights-holder representative has agreed to grant local universities a blanket license for the noncommercial redistribution of its work. The deal promises to free universities from some liability while allowing students and faculty to continue using whatever technology suits their needs. Plus, the copyright holders will get paid for the use. Sounds great to us!
Artists: "We're Not Threatened by Filesharing"
Mary Madden of the Pew Internet and American Life Project
says, "What we hear from a wide spectrum of artists is
that, despite the real challenges of protecting work
online, the Internet has opened new ways for them to
exercise their imaginations and sell their creations."
Starbucks CD Sales Gives Record Industry the Shakes
In the latest fit of music distribution ingenuity, the coffee chain sold 350,000 copies of "Genius," the Ray Charles duet album that it helped to market and produce.
November 19, 2004Hollywood Drops the Dime on Hundreds of P2P Users
The studios were evidently wowed by the *increase* in file sharing after the RIAA's lawsuits, so they've now begun trying to emulate that success.
November 18, 2004Bad Copyright Law: Jumping on the Omnibus
Congress is considering an enormous copyright bill that combines a number of the year's most offensive proposals, including increased jail time for copyright infringement.
November 10, 2004Suing 12-Year-Olds Is *So* 2003
After all, the 2004 version of the War on File Sharing sues 10-year-olds.
Hollywood Sues Filesharers
Impressed with the stunning, awe-inspiring success of the recording industry's lawsuits, the major motion picture companies have decided to sue the tens of millions of people who share movies over P2P networks.
Sony BMG to Grokster: Let's Make a Deal
The odd couple have arranged to offer free and paid music on the P2P company's network.
October 26, 2004Music Sales, File Sharing on the Rise
The Register puts it best: "Music Sales Rise Despite RIAA's Best Efforts."
October 19, 2004New Scholarship Shows P2P Isn't Declining
According to the authors, P2P network traffic has not declined at all over the past three years - and that's not even taking into account the amount of encrypted traffic.
October 13, 2004DoJ Report Endorses PDEA, Induce Act
Meaning that you, the taxpayer, would get to fund the entertainment industry's misguided war on filesharing while innovators pack up shop and head overseas.
P2P Lawsuits Hit Europe
The recording industry is takes its sue-the-fans act on a world tour.
October 12, 2004eDonkey Beats KaZaA
eDonkey is now the world's most popular file-sharing application, besting KaZaA in the latest ratings from BayTSP. John Borland suggests that the company may have been too busy fighting off lawsuits to improve its technology.
Hollywood Pushes Supreme Court to Consider P2P
One day after failing to push the Induce Act past the goal line, Hollywood predictably tried for an end-run around Congress by filing a petition for cert in the Grokster case. Here's the bizarre twist: its legal team includes both Kenneth Starr (President Clinton's prosecutor during his impeachment scandal) and David Kendall (Clinton's personal lawyer during said scandal).
October 05, 2004UCLA on Technical Responses to P2P
This article looks at Audible Magic and the school's own home-brew tools for frustrating P2P on campus.
Stanford Cracks Down on P2P
Students who share copyrighted files can lose their SUNet ID, making them a digital persona non grata on campus.
Sony Pulls Hobbled CDs from Market
Is it because they don't work and consumers hate them? Of course not! According to Sony, the company has decided to stop making hobbled CDs because "its message against illegally copying CDs...has widely sunk in."
Will RIAA Go Fishing for Grouper?
Grouper is a "small-world" file-sharing application that allows users to share with 30 friends, and its founders say that it's legal.
September 30, 2004The Senate's Taste for RIAA Kool-Aid
There's so much bad press about the Induce Act that we can't keep up, yet Hatch & Co. remain stubborn.
September 29, 2004Induce Act Still Gag-Inducing
The latest version of this nasty bill is no easier to swallow than the first. Wired News explains why.
The Long, Winding Road to Digital Hollywood
Movie studios and tech companies at the Digital Hollywood conference pondered the perpetual problem: how to put even stronger locks on the stuff you buy.
Biting the Hand that Feeds You
EFF's Fred von Lohmann on why suing customers is (still) a bad idea.
September 23, 2004Enormous Group of Technology Heavy-Hitters Oppose Induce
The list includes Intel, Google, Sun Microsystems, Yahoo, EarthLink, Verizon, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE-USA), and Radio Shack. Still think it's just about file sharing, Senator Hatch?
GREAT song A+++++ WOULD LISTEN AGAIN!!!!
You guessed it: eBay will offer digital music downloads.
Inducing America to Give Up Innovation
Guy Kewney, a UK journalist, hopes that if the misguided Induce Act becomes law, the bone-deep chill will remain within US borders - leaving companies in the rest of the world free to out-innovate us.
September 15, 2004R.E.M. Guitarist Gives Away iPods Stuffed with MusicRIAA Sued for Patent Infringement
From the Department of High Irony: the recording industry heavies have been sued for infringing - and *inducing* the infringement - of a patent on P2P "spoofing."
September 08, 2004Save Betamax by Calling Out the Induce Act
The folks at Downhill Battle want you to call Congress on the harm the Induce Act would cause to innovation, and they've made it easy with SaveBetamax.org.
More Independent Software Turns iTunes into P2P Playground
MyTunes Redux allows iTunes users to share song files with multiple computers, not just stream music.
September 07, 2004Congress Set to Vote on Spyware, P2P Bills
The Piracy Deterrence and Education Act (PDEA) cleared another hurdle on Capitol Hill. Tell your representatives to fight it by clicking here.
Why Grokster Rocks
The executive director of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society explains why the Grokster opinion makes sense for the future of innovation.
Netflix to Download Movies to Your TiVo
We're pleasantly surprised that Netflix was able to get permission for this neat little trick.
August 29, 2004Duke Distributes iPods, Shuns Napster
The Blue Devils will not be the 21st student body forced to pay for Napster 2.0.
August 24, 2004DoJ Official Pans PIRATE Act
The act aims to enlist federal prosecutors in the fight against file sharing, and it was passed by the Senate earlier this year.
August 12, 2004Napster Enrolls, Napster Enlists
The downloading service has been inking deals with colleges for over a year, and now they've agreed to let the U.S. military access the service for... drumroll... 10% off!
The Revolution Will Be Downloaded, then Televised
Farhad Manjoo on the important convergence of BitTorrent and RSS.
August 06, 2004Shake & Break: Tools to Evaluate the War on P2P
The economic impact of P2P has been hotly debated for years, but these people want to know if the RIAA and MPAA themselves are hurting the industry's sales.
40 States and 40 Fights
That's what a recent letter signed by 40 state attorneys general promises if P2P companies don't suddenly gain the ability to control everything on their networks.
July 23, 2004Another Study Says P2P Doesn't Hurt Record Industry
Meanwhile, the record labels fume and insist that they do have clothes.
July 13, 2004Canadian P2P Redux
The RIAA's Canadian analog - CRIA - appealed a recent ruling that essentially legalized P2P in America's Hat [Ed. Note: We kid because we love].
100% Increase in Number of Files Downloaded Over P2P
Two new studies suggest that file sharing is booming, despite a yearlong campaign of lawsuits and congressional saber-rattling.
July 09, 2004Plot Hole Discovered in Hollywood's Story on Piracy and Profits
A new study from Tinseltown says that movie piracy is on the rise. But last week they also announced that the industry is healthier - and more profitable - than ever before.
Who's Really Looking Out for Artists Online?
P2P companies are developing ways to pay artists - without the support of record labels.
July 07, 2004Hollywood Rolls Out New Piracy-Resistant Screeners
Will it work? We think this quote from Academy President Frank Pierson might turn out to be accidentally prescient: "It certainly looked foolproof to us."
July 05, 2004KaZaA's Aussie Trial Gets a Date
But what about the evidence that the record companies seized in SWAT-style raids? The answer to that question is still up in the air.
Bidding Record Labels Goodbye
Some artists are doing it right now, and their Internet-enabled approach to selling records could be the harbinger of many good things to come.
June 30, 2004Steve Winwood and Access Hollywood Use P2P for Promotion
The odd couple is using free P2P systems like KaZaA and Gnutella to promote Winwood's new project.
Canadian ISPs Not Responsible for Music Royalties
Record companies, unwilling to negotiate a licensing system with the public, were rebuked in Canada when they tried to extract royalties from ISPs.
June 25, 2004RIAA Suits Received Coolly in Canada
File sharing is getting more popular in Canada, even as the RIAA continues to sue people south of the border.
Collective Licensing in the NY Times
And even better, Kembrew McLeod advocates a P2P payment plan that involves voluntary licensing - the flavor that EFF supports.
June 24, 2004Felten On Universities and P2P
The good professor has more great advice for schools pressured to adopt technical "solutions" to P2P on campus.
June 22, 2004RIAA's Broken Record Plays On
More new lawsuits that aren't newsworthy unless your beat is "stubborn industries banging their heads against the wall."
June 18, 2004Online Movie Downloads Highlight Appeal of Infringement
One user thinks that Hollywood's approach to the Internet is enough to drive people to piracy.
June 14, 2004High Schools Learn About P2P Blocking
Network-monitoring companies like Audible Magic are now peddling their wares in high schools.
June 10, 2004We Spoke Too Soon
Turns out that CD sales have, at least in the UK, continued to drop despite an increase in authorized downloads. Once again, the link between P2P and the music industry's health seems more complicated than the "pirate"-hunters would have us believe.
IFPI Claims Drop in Number of Songs Available on P2P
The RIAA's international sibling claims that the number of songs available on P2P networks dropped 27% this year. IFPI's methodology is unclear, but this should be a huge boon to CD sales...right?
Record Companies Continue P2P Suits in EuropeJune 06, 2004Music Industry Lowers CD Prices
A nice, short article on some of the reasons for the decision.
May 31, 2004Sony Signs Audible Magic for Anti-Piracy Post
The Japanese giant will use Audible Magic in a range of enforcement efforts.
P2P Traffic Shifts Lanes
A new study claims that filesharers are fleeing KaZaA for programs like eDonkey, but the overall level of file sharing remains stable.
May 26, 2004RIAA Suits Keep Rolling (Over People)
USA Today has a sad snapshot of Tammy Lafky, a single mother whose 14 year-old downloaded music and who now faces up to $540,000 in damages from a music industry lawsuit. An RIAA flak points out that the suits are supposed to teach people that file sharing is "wrong." Not that there's anything wrong with bankrupting a single mother...right?
May 22, 2004Italy Jacks Up Criminal Penalties for P2P
The new law could slap a 3-year jail term on individuals who either upload or download copyrighted material.
"True Names" Bill Rolls Through CA Senate
The bill requires the attachment of valid email addresses to copyrighted works distributed online.
May 14, 2004Record Companies Cook Books to Show Losses?
Another piece arguing that the recording industry's piracy claims don't add up.
May 13, 2004Napster Tries to Gag University
Ohio U. posted a survey asking whether $3/student/month is a raw deal for Napster's service, but the company ordered the university to take down the survey and clam up about the price.
May 10, 2004P2P Spoofing Patent Awarded to Two Academics
Of course, the record labels have been doing this for years, and legal fights may well ensue. May those battles be long and expensive.
Japanese Professor Arrested for Writing P2P Application
Isamu Kaneko, an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo, has been arrested under suspicion of "conspiracy to commit copyright violation" for authoring a file-sharing program called "Winny."
May 06, 2004What the Music Industry (Still) Doesn't Get
Steven Levy on lawsuits, the iTunes Music Store, and how people want their music.
May 04, 2004Tennessee Won't Pay RIAA Protection Money
A plan proposed by Napster 2 would have charged the state's 180,000 students $9.99/month for access to music - a yearly bill of $21 million.
Breaking the Band
Fascinating story on how new technology and alternative distribution channels are helping musicians get noticed.
Dutch Authority Claims Piracy Data Sharing Illegal
BREIN - the Dutch entertainment industry's anti-piracy association - was recently reprimanded for sharing names, addresses, bank account numbers and IP addresses with the RIAA.
May 03, 2004New Study: Musicians Don't Think RIAA Suits Help
And that's not all - 72% think P2P has either a neutral or beneficial effect on their careers.
April 30, 2004More RIAA Lawsuits
The recording industry filed 477 more expensive lawsuits this week, generating another $0.00 for artists.
April 27, 2004Spreading the Gospel on P2P
Fans of Christian pop are getting a lot of it over P2P networks, where anonymity can ease the social stigma of rocking out with the Lord.
April 25, 2004CD Sales Continue to Rise
And file sharing is still around. Perhaps those studies concluding that P2P isn't hurting the music industry are [gasp] correct?
DOJ Statement on School District Raid
"‘Operation Fastlink’ Is The Largest Global Enforcement Action Ever Undertaken Against Online Piracy." It's targeted at warez groups throughout the world.
April 19, 2004Copyright Holders Pursue "Shoot First" Policy on Campuses
Universities get thousands of copyright infringement notices each year, but some are now coming with XML baked-in. The reason? A new automated takedown tool that kicks kids off the network without any human intervention or opportunity to protest.
April 14, 2004How Apple Can Afford to Take a Loss on the iTunes Music Store
The company's profits tripled on a 900% increase in iPod sales.
April 13, 2004Iraqster: Soldiers Swap Music During WartimeApril 12, 2004A Unified Theory of Filesharing and CD Sales
Ed Felten reconciles different studies and disparate methods.
April 10, 2004Another Study Suggests P2P Is Good for Album Sales
This one, from a Princeton honors student, finds that Internet adoption has a positive correlation to music sales.
Canada Makes P2P an Election Issue
The leader of Canada's New Democratic Party thinks P2P is good for society and may not lead to lost record sales.
April 09, 2004Fighting Censorship with P2P
Ross Anderson envisions a future in which government censors and news syndicates don't regulate what news we view.
April 05, 2004The RIAA Has No Clothes
The NYT on the recent study that found file sharing doesn't hurt album sales.
Music to Our Ears: Donating to Bands You Download
A Wilco fan got the group's latest album by downloading it from the Net, so he set up a site where others could donate to the band.
April 02, 2004RIAA Gets Burned in the Sunshine State
An Orlando court ruled that the recording industry can't go after 25 P2P users - who don't know one another - with a single suit. Yet another court reminds the RIAA about that pesky "due process" concept.
iTunes Under Scrutiny
Harvard's Digital Media Project with a study of the norms and laws around Apple's iTunes.
April 01, 2004Circuit City Buys MusicNow for Undisclosed Sum
They didn't actually use the words "fire sale," but we're still guessing that they paid in nickels.
A Tale of Two PDEAs
Rep. Lofgren's "Public Domain Enhancement Act" would restore some balance to copyright law, while the "Piracy Deterrence and Education Act" is a super-sampler of bad IPR enforcement. Unfortunately, it's the second PDEA that just got the green light from a House panel.
March 31, 2004Music Execs Rely on P2P Statistics
It's not new news, but it's nice to see more stories on how the recording industry uses P2P to sell records.
Canada's Copyright Revolution: As Good as it Gets
A Canadian court just issued an awesome, hyperbole-defying decision in the case involving CRIA's attempts to obtain P2P users' identities.
March 30, 2004Recording Industry Launches World Tour of P2P Lawsuits
IFPI, the recording industry's international umbrella organization, has launched P2P suits in Germany, Denmark, Italy and Canada.
March 28, 2004We Didn't Start the Fire: Report Says P2P Not Behind Record Slump
The joint report from Harvard Business School and UNC Chapel Hill says that P2P's effect on album sales is "statistically indistinguishable from zero."
Wilco and Lessig, Together at Last
It makes perfect sense that these two proponents of free culture would have such an interesting conversation.
March 24, 2004Wal-Mart Offers $0.88 Download
You may save two nickels over iTunes, but the service is only for Windows, the files are wrapped in DRM and the selection is only a pale shadow of what the P2P nets offer.
March 22, 2004The Other Silver Lining in Janet's Bustier
Lauren Gelman points out that Hollywood's "broadcast flag" would have prevented the public from distributing and discussing clips of the incident that launched a thousand letters to the FCC.
Two More Hollywood Insiders Busted for Piracy
The majority of pre-release movie piracy stems from Hollywood "leaks" and existing laws can be used to plug them. So why does the MPAA continue to push for overbroad copyright laws that would trample on the public's rights?
March 21, 2004Indie Record Stores: P2P Turns Kids into "Music Junkies"
Business is reportedly booming for real record stores, despite tales of gloom and doom from the major labels.
March 16, 2004Click Here to Legalize ItMarch 15, 2004Should P2P be Labeled a "Dangerous Product?"
Only if you believe a letter by California's Attorney General - and the MPAA lawyers who wrote it for him.
iTunes to Miss Sales Target
Often touted as the answer to all our file-sharing woes, Apple's iTunes is only halfway to its goal of selling 100 million songs by April.
March 12, 2004More Companies Use P2P to Distribute Games, MoviesMarch 08, 2004Grammy Winner Urges Fans to Record, Share His Concerts
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