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Art to Heart Petition Statement
Restrictive closed format protocols such as SDMI threaten to halt the free flow of digitally distributed music from artists to their fans. An alliance of vested interests in the music industry is attempting to impose restrictive security features on all digital music software and hardware players under the pretext of protecting themselves against piracy.
http://www.free-music.com/petition/
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Boycott CDs
Movement urging webmasters to protest the RIAA.
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~chapinr/
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Boycott-Riaa.com
Organization rebutting arguments of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and writing critiques of the industry lobbyists' attempts to control music sharing and copying. With background information, news, essays, and links.
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/
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Business Week - Big Music's Worst Move Yet
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.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040127_2819_tc047.htm
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Business Week - Did Big Music Really Sink the Pirates?
Surveys showing that lawsuits have greatly reduced file-sharing may be seriously flawed. By some measures, swaps are actually escalating.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040116_9177_tc024.htm
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Free Music
Supports the Free Music Philosophy, the idea that all people should have the freedom to copy, distribute, and modify music for personal, noncommercial purposes. FAQ, articles, suggested further reading, links to related sites.
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/freemusic.html
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Mass Mic
Fighting to provide freedom of expression in music. Offers a discussion forum, censorship news and contact information.
http://www.massmic.com/
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Musicians Against Copyrighting Of Samples
An international network of musicians whose opinions of sampling and the use of sampling technology oppose the copyrighting of samples. Allowing the general public to sample from MACOS material freely, without incurring any legal ramifications.
http://www.icomm.ca/macos/
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Piracy is Your Friend
A manifesto for musicians who want to make money in the new economy. Asserts that piracy is a phony issue that record labels are hyping in order to rip off artists.
http://www.maui.net/~zen_gtr/zgzinepg4.html
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Policing Pirates in the Networked Age
A professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas lists reasons why record industry experts failed to prove their assertion that Napster was gutting industry revenues.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-438es.html
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RIAA Radar
A tool that music consumers can use to distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America.
http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/
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Salon - File sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty
An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't, and he doesn't know why.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/13/liebowitz/
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Salon - Can Anyone Stop the Music Cops?
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.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/17/brownback_bill/index_np.html
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The Droplift Project
Anti-copyright collective of musicians using samples from popular culture to create challenging and subversing audio collage. Information about fair use and copyright issues in music, along with free MP3 downloads.
http://www.droplift.org
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The Problem With Music
Talks about how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive.
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
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We Hate the RIAA
Updates and forum on RIAA actions.
http://riaa.freecyberzone.com/
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Why Free Music?
A collection of essays on the issues surrounding intellectual property and copyright as they relate to music.
http://www.free-music.com/freemus.htm
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