Directory of Filesharing Resources

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Filesharing here refers to making files available for general download over the Internet, generally over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks like Gnutella or Napster before it was reconstructed as a music store.

Resources in This Category

• Copying Isn't Cool

  http://www.salon.com/2003/09/12/file_sharing_one/
  "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]

• DieTrollDie

  http://dietrolldie.com/
  News and views from a person who was targeted for an alleged file sharing case. Includes information on how to file a motion, settlement letter examples and a forum.

• Fight Copyright Trolls

  http://fightcopyrighttrolls.com/
  Includes educational material for the people targeted by settlement demands and provides a forum to discuss the defense strategies.

• File Sharing: A Debate

  http://www.mredkj.com/other/sharing.html
  Arguments for and against filesharing, with a focus on trading MP3s.

• File-Sharing Getting Bad Rap?

  http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/file-sharing-getting-bad-rap-20040405
  "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]

• LA Times: File 'sharing' or 'stealing'?

  http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-oew-healey18feb18-story.html
  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.

• The Effect of P2P File-sharing Depends on Popularity

  http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2005/11/the_effect_of_p.html
  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]

• The Pirate's Dilemma

  http://www.thepiratesdilemma.com/
  A blog about the relationship between piracy, youth culture, pop culture and innovation. Information on the book The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Re-invented Capitalism and author and speaker Matt Mason.

• Who Owns Culture?

  https://archive.org/details/WhoOwnsCulture
  Streaming audio of a presentation by Lawrence Lessig, a discussion between him and Jeff Tweedy on digital filesharing, and question and answer session. Part of "Live From the New York Public Library".

• Yo Ho Ho – Buccanerds Give Studios a Broadside

  http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article1289693.ece
  Profile of BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay and file-sharing evangelism. [Times Online]

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