Piercing the Peer-to-Peer Myths
An examination of the Canadian experience.

This is an excellent analysis of the Canadian Recording Industry Association’s (CRIA) claims that P2P music downloads have resulted in lost profits and that it has harmed Canadian artists. The CRIA is lobbying for stronger copyright protection in Canada, since it is legal to share music here at the moment. Using the CRIA‘s sales figures, the author, Micheal Geist, demonstrates that each of the CRIA‘s claims are nothing more than myths.

And here is an (unrelated) interesting little tidbit from Google.

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