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This article tells how illegal music download may effect music sales

gives facts about illegal music downloading

A good articel onthe breakdown of where the money goes from CD or a song legally downloaded.

If your not sure when downloading music is illegal check this article out. It'll fill you in.

This article states that 95% of music downloads are illegal. This is kind of shocking with software like iTunes on the market.

Thought some of the stats they found on those who think music downloading should be legal/illegal was interesting and relevent to our topic

An article I plan on discussing in my final paper. Tells how internet users could be banned over illegal downloads.

Good reference for those writing about illegal downloads

Article discusses RIAA's new approach to curbing the downloading portion of file sharing. RIAA is working with ISP's to have them slow down the internet connections of people who are downloading music illegally. Does not mention anything about doing the same for people who are sharing though. The sharers are still being sued.

Article discusses how the RIAA is issuing letters to suspected copyright infringing music downloaders and sharers and asking them to turn themselves in and pay a reduced fine, which will still be in the thousands of dollars, or else they will sue them for all they have or might ever have. Lawyer from University of Southern California talks about how letters are actually just "cease and desist letters" and that suspected offenders might not want to turn themselves in because the RIAA might not be able to find out their identities otherwise since many schools ISP's are not keeping track of or releasing students' names, personally identifiable IP addresses, or other information.

Very good article that clears up grey areas in downloading music on the internet

This article explains very well what people don't realize and how it affects you when they are downloading music illegally.

Anyone interested in net neutrality or the governments role in online regulation of service providers

One way that some have tried to deal with piracy is by suing large groups of people that are sharing a file, rather than sue individual people. The problem is that there is a debate on whether it is alright to clump these people into a single case. This article shows that some attorneys have ruled that you may not lump multiple file sharers into a single case, while others have ruled this practice to be fine.

Looks at a piece of legislation being debated right now that is intended to address piracy. "The bill would give the government legal tools to blacklist a "rogue" website from the Internet's Domain Name System, ban credit card companies from processing US payments to the site, and forbid US-based online ad networks from working with the site. It even directs the government to keep a list of suspect sites, even though no evidence has been presented against them in court."