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Eyes on your copyrighted prize: Don't even think about trying to find a copy of an award-winning civil rights documentary online. The copyright cops will be waiting.; By Andrew Leonard Jan 5, 2005
Send lawyers, guns and money: CD sales have rebounded ever since the music biz started suing file-sharers. The industry is convinced there's a connection.; By Eric Boehlert Nov 6, 2003
Can anyone stop the music cops?: As Hollywood wins one court case after another, one Republican senator is suggesting that maybe it's time for some new laws -- that protect consumers instead of entertainment companies.; By Farhad Manjoo Jun 17, 2003
Mexico's music business meltdown: Pirates armed with CD burners and cheap discs are bringing the industry to its knees. The U.S. could be next.; By Jack Brown Jun 9, 2003
I have seen the future of music and its name is iTunes: Apple's new online music-buying system is everything Napster promised to be -- cheap, easy and, best of all, legal.; By Farhad Manjoo Apr 29, 2003
The Napster backlash: When Savenapster.com founder Chad Paulson decided that the file-trading pioneer cared more about money than artists, he stunned the company by changing sides. An excerpt from "All the Rave."; By Joseph Menn Apr 21, 2003
A file-trading ship of fools: Don't scapegoat greedy record execs for Napster's failure, says Joseph Menn in "All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster." The inept bunglers who ran the company have only themselves to blame.; By Farhad Manjoo Apr 21, 2003
Replay it again, Sam: Personal video recorders already have Hollywood running scared. Now Microsoft is pushing a new computer that will make trading TV shows as easy as using ... Napster.; By Farhad Manjoo Dec 9, 2002
File sharing: Guilty as charged?: New numbers on declining music sales could mean that MP3 trading really is hurting CD sales. But that still doesn't mean we should lock up the pirates.; By Damien Cave Aug 23, 2002
Sour notes: The legal crackdown hasn't squelched MP3 trading -- it's just made it more of a pain. But the music industry would still rather fight than give its online customers what they want.; By Farhad Manjoo Jul 30, 2002
File sharing: Innocent until proven guilty: An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't -- and he doesn't know why.; By Damien Cave Jun 13, 2002
Not the real Slim Shady: Are the fake MP3s popping up on file-sharing networks part of the recording industry's war on piracy, or just the latest in music marketing?; By Dan Levine Jun 10, 2002
Napster's wake: The company that launched a thousand rips may be dead, but the movement it launched continues to thrive -- and to make a mockery of the music industry's pathetic online offerings.; By Janelle Brown May 17, 2002
Musician to Napster judge: Let my music go: A 1960s-era recording artist says he can't get Sony to pay royalties, so his psychedelic pop might as well be free.; By Damien Cave Apr 23, 2002
Anti-Trustworthy computing: Microsoft's new security drive aims to appease Hollywood, comfort consumers and reinvigorate the PC. But will the price for such safety be too high?; By Paul Boutin Apr 9, 2002
Don't steal music, pretty please: Record companies will make big, big money online. They just need to learn to let go.; By Paul Boutin Dec 18, 2001
How the music industry blew it: John Alderman's "Sonic Boom" recounts the history of Napster -- and the unstoppable rise of file trading.; By Richard Barbrook Nov 30, 2001
Internet liberation theology: In "The Future of Ideas" Lawrence Lessig explains why ham-handed efforts to increase copyright protection are a threat to freedom and prosperity.; By Marc Rotenberg Nov 7, 2001
Peer-to-peer terrorism: Bad news from the Napster wars: The harder you fight against decentralized networks, the more enemies you create.; By James Grimmelmann Sep 26, 2001
The parasite economy: There's a new software business model in town -- symbiotic plug-ins that pay for the privilege of piggybacking on the hot download of the moment.; By Damien Cave Aug 2, 2001
R.I.P. World Birthday Web: As the Net gets older, is it losing its soul, or just growing up?; By Andrew Leonard Aug 1, 2001
Revenge of the file-sharing masses!: By smashing Napster, the music industry has pushed its customers to seek alternatives that won't be so easy to shut down.; By Scott Rosenberg Jul 20, 2001
Everyone's Brent Musburger: Down with the sports monopolies! In the FanCast.com future, we all get to do the play-by-play.; By King Kaufman Jun 27, 2001
End of an affair?: Hackers love their TiVos, and the company is fond of its hackers. But as in any relationship, sometimes one party goes a bit too far.; By Damien Cave Jun 20, 2001
The music revolution will not be digitized: The dust is clearing from the online entertainment wars. Who won? The record labels. Who lost? Consumers.; By Janelle Brown Jun 1, 2001

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