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File Sharing
URL: http://www.eff.org/issues/file-sharing

Description:
This site from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) advocates for legalizing music file-sharing (also known as P2P, for "peer to peer"). Includes "information on compensating artists while making P2P legal." The "Subpoena Defense" section includes a searchable database of subpoenas filed by the Recording Industry Association of America to compel Internet Service Providers to identify users who are file-sharing.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Intellectual property
Music trade
Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks)
Sound recordings

LII Database Information:
Record 11037 created by Karen Schneider on 09/10/2003
Last modification on 11/01/2007
Published: 09/10/2003  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/11037