An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't, and he doesn't know why.
As Hollywood wins one court case after another, one Republican senator is suggesting that maybe it's time for some new laws -- that protect consumers instead of entertainment companies.
The RIAA's newest aggressive tactics and legal assault on file swappers is pushing traders to encrypted networks, where file trading will mushroom as well as be untraceable.
Surveys showing that lawsuits have greatly reduced file-sharing may be seriously flawed. By some measures, swaps are actually escalating.
Movement urging webmasters to protest the RIAA.
Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, copyright, and performing rights.
Canadian article by an industry songwriter who examines both sides of the argument and sees file-trading as a consumer revolt and an explicit demand for change.
Despite hundreds of lawsuits on file sharers from the RIAA and loud cries that P2P networks are all to blame, research at Harvard Business School and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill concludes that downloads have zero effect on sales.
Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled.
A new group criticizes the recording industry for blaming consumers instead of its own failures.
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