Bibliographical:

Here are other articles by Amy Harmon on the same general topic of internet copying and on other topics.

Here are some links to the full text of a number of other articles on the topic of file sharing:

Cultural:

To learn more about this controversy, here are the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) announcement of and rationale for the April 3, 2003 lawsuits brought against operators of college peer-to-peer file-sharing web sites engaged in facilitation of copying of music.

Follow-up RIAA announcements of the progress of legal actions against P2P file sharing of copyrighted music can be accessed through this link.

Here's more about the legal actions.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) takes a different approach to issues raised by the collision of copyright law and P2P file sharing technology. This site includes links to other EFF pages on various aspects of the issue.

A recapping of the state of the legal battles over P2P copying as of November 2004.

Also of interest is a thoughtful 2003 article which talks about the broader implications of legal actions taken by the entertainment industry to limit on-line copying. Both articles are on the site of the Cato Institute, which advocates the libertarian view of maximum feasible individual freedom and minimum feasible government regulation.