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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.

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Audio Files
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Corrupted Audio CDs
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The Problem With Music - Essay by Steve Albini discusses how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive. 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. 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. Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War - Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs. 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] News.com - File sharing legal in Canada - Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled. 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. PCWorld.com - P2P Companies Take Aim at the RIAA - A new group criticizes the recording industry for blaming consumers instead of its own failures.

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