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File Sharing: A Debate - Arguments for and against filesharing, with a focus on trading MP3s.
MusicUnited.org - Alliance of various music industry organizations advocating against distributing copyrighted music.
Who Owns Culture? - 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'? - 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. (February 18, 2008)
Yo Ho Ho – Buccanerds Give Studios a Broadside - Profile of BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay and file-sharing evangelism. [Times Online] (January 7, 2007)
The Effect of P2P File-sharing Depends on Popularity - 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] (November 24, 2005)
'Music Is Not a Loaf of Bread' - Interview with Wilco, a band that dropped its label and file shared its album, achieving commercial success and Grammy nominations. [Wired] (November 15, 2004)
File-Sharing Getting Bad Rap? - "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] (April 5, 2004)
Copying Isn't Cool - "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] (September 12, 2003)