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Society: Issues: Intellectual Property: Digital Rights Management (62)

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APIG inquiry into Digital Rights Management - Details of the investigation and subsequent report by the UK Parliament's 'All Party Internet Group' into DRM systems in the music industry. Evidence was taken from campaigners and interested parties from all sides of the debate.
Beyondthecommons - Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, copyright, and performing rights.
Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War - Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs.
File Sharing Doesn't Affect Films and Music Sales - Argues that P2P doesn't threaten music, musicmaking or musicians because sales are at all time highs.
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.
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.
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.
Recording Industry vs. the People - Collects and shares information about the lawsuits brought against ordinary people by the RIAA and the majors. By Ray Beckermann, business lawyer in New York City.
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.
The Problem With Music - Essay by Steve Albini discusses how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive.
News.com - File sharing legal in Canada - Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled. (March 31, 2004)
The Globe and Mail - Copy This: Up With Downloading - Canadian article by an industry songwriter who examines both sides of the argument and sees file-trading as a consumer revolt and an explicit demand for change. (March 18, 2004)
NPR : DJ's 'Grey Album' Spurs Dispute - DJ Dangermouse (Brian Burton) took vocals from rapper Jay-Z's "The Black Album," mixed them with instrumentals from The Beatles (known to all as The White Album), and came up with "The Grey Album." It wasn't made for commercial release, but the mixes got Internet play. EMI - the label controlling Beatles music - took legal action, and Web sites recently mounted a protest. Joel Rose reports. [7:42 streaming audio broadcast] (February 28, 2004)
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. (January 27, 2004)
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. (January 16, 2004)
PCWorld.com - P2P Companies Take Aim at the RIAA - A new group criticizes the recording industry for blaming consumers instead of its own failures. (September 29, 2003)

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Groups or pages defending the unrestricted distribution of music/songs, instead of a few large corporations having monopoly grants on them. They usually believe that artists are actually harmed/repressed by the current copyright system, because fewer are able to produce music and fewer people are able to hear their works.

For sites and pages addressing the issue of mp3 sharing.

Corrupted Audio CDs

Several "anti-rip" schemes for CDs insert chunks of garbage data to produce errors in CD players.

Newer audio CD players contain error-correction software designed to compensate for scratches and minor damage. The garbage data disrupts re-encoding of the audio into MP3 and other formats, while relying on error-correcting CD players to compensate for it. Some CD players, particularly car stereos, game consoles, and CD-ROM drives, cannot play audio CDs seeded with these errors.

These schemes are often inaccurately referred to as "copy protection", though no steps are taken to prevent verbatim duplication of the corrupted audio data to another CD.

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