MetaFilter posts tagged with filesharing and IntellectualProperty

War on Drugs, War on Terror, War on Leaks

Coherence Panda — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:55:09 -0800

Steal this album. "In the dying days of the music business as we once knew it, record labels are waging war on leaks—only to discover that many of the saboteurs come from within the industry itself." It's easy to arrest a geek or lay draconian fines on a single mom; what happens when their witchhunt leads to their own offices? Animal Collective won't always be around to get the culprits off the hook.

Putting their bandwidth where their mouth is

jbickers — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:09:10 -0800

Good Copy Bad Copy is "a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture," featuring Danger Mouse, Lawrence Lessig, Dan Glickman of the MPAA and others. The film's creators are releasing it free of charge, via Bittorrent.

The problem with music, redux.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:16:20 -0800

While Courtney pulled an Albini, Jeff handed out the bread. Are the peasants acting like emperors, or do they still want something shiny, aluminum, plastic, and digital? Debacle or cage, something's got to give (pdf). Alternatively, you can just roll your own.

Files are not for sharing

soplerfo — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:26:44 -0800

Files are not for sharing
An illustrated primer for everyone still unclear on the rights and wrongs of intellectual property by Matthew Baldwin and Goopymart at The Morning News

Ryan Malcolm knows what's up.

Jairus — Sat, 03 Apr 2004 23:36:19 -0800

In response to Justice Konrad von Finckenstein ruling that file sharing was legal in Canada (previously discussed here), Federal Heritage Minister Helene Scherrer has stated that "As minister of Canadian Heritage, I will, as quickly as possible, make changes to our copyright law".

The problem is that Canadian copyright law has been going through a slow and thoughtful reformation process. Since the unveiling of A Framework for Copyright Reform in 2001, a lot of progress has been made in updating the laws to reflect the needs and concerns of content producers, and the public domain. Now, however, it seems that all of this work may be bulldozed by Helene Scherrer, who declared her intentions at the Juno Awards last night.

Mick — Mon, 22 May 2000 10:30:37 -0800

An interview with the lawyers from Napster and Metellica. Good points, both.

TuxHeDoh — Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:28:03 -0800

ABC reports on Napsters usage on University Campuses.