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File sharing is a new phenomenon that is based on a very ancient idea: music exists to be shared between people who love music. Only in the last century have we moved backwards in creating a system of intellectual property to control the distribution and appreciation of music. Now, with new technologies, this corporate state of control has been turned upside down by music lovers and musicians who are tired of being ripped off by the middlemen: the music industry.
"File sharing is literally that -- one person sharing files to another. A great many methods have been created over the years: BBS, FTP, IRC, WWW, Gnutella, OpenNap. Heck, people used to carve up software to fit onto multiple floppies and then mailed them!" -- infoAnarchy wiki
Interview: Thievery Corporation (Downhillbattle.org)
Interview:
Ian MacKaye (Downhillbattle.org)
Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand. I don't need all the plastic. Obviously I would like people to support us, that'd be great. But at the end of the day, I'd rather people hear the music.
RIAA
Parses 'P2P' As 'Peer 2 Porn'
Having largely failed to galvanize public and political action against P2P systems, the RIAA has mounted a campaign to link P2P systems with child pornography.
Music
industry threats not slowing file-sharing volume
Companies that develop music-sharing software and people who download copyrighted music were not frightened by the recording industry's threat Tuesday to sue computer users who illegally offer to share ``substantial'' amounts of music.
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