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» '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]
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65688,00.html
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» 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]
http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/09/12/file_sharing_one/
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» File Sharing: A Debate 
Arguments for and against filesharing, with a focus on trading MP3s.
http://www.mredkj.com/other/sharing.html
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» 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]
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5936994/filesharing_getting_bad_rap
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» 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.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-healey18feb18,0,5092348.story
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» MusicUnited.org 
Alliance of various music industry organizations advocating against distributing copyrighted music.
http://www.musicunited.org/
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» 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]
http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2005/11/the_effect_of_p.html
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» Who Owns Culture? 
Streaming audio and video of a discussion of digital filesharing, part of a library series called "Live From the NYPL."
http://wilcoworld.net/wired/
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» Yo Ho Ho – Buccanerds Give Studios a Broadside 
Profile of BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay and file-sharing evangelism. [Times Online]
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article1289693.ece
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