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Bangeman, E. (2005). File-Sharing is eroding the moral fiber of Canadian youth. Retrieved July 21, 2006 from http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050930-5368.html.

Harman, W. (2004). Is Grokster Contributory and Vicarious? How the courts wrestle with copyright and creativity in Internet age. Retrieved August 23, 2006, from http://www.futureofmusic.org/articles/grokster.cfm

Hyman, Michael R. and Kevin J. Shanahan, (2006) A Better Way to Stop Personal Online Pirating (POPing), retrieved September 4, 2006, from http://bbrs.nmsu.edu/nmbizoutlook/showarticle.php?articleID=50326.

Oberholzer, F. and Strumpf, K. (2004). The Effect of File sharing on Record Sales An Empirical Analysis. Retrieved July 21, 2006 from, University of North Carolina web site: http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/FileSharing_March2004.pdf.

Shmoo, M. (2005, November 4). File-Sharing Lawsuits Fail to Deter P2P Downloaders. Boycott-RIAA.com. Retrieved July 21, 2006 from http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/18598

File-sharing: Over-ruling Ethics? (2005, April 13). Retrieved June 23, 2006, from www.ethicsscoreboard.com/list/filesharing2.html
Canada’s File-Sharing Surrender (2004, April 26). Retrieved August 20, 2006 from http://www.ethicsscoreboard.com/list/filesharing.html.

 

Web Links:

http://www.copyrightkids.org/cbasicsframes.htm, a very useful source on issues pertaining to copyright, that is designed to inform a youthful audience on this topic.
http://www.efga.org/weblog/archives/HR2517_20030619.pdf, presents H.R. 2517 the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2004.

 

http://www.grokster.com/), the Grokster web site that warns users of the illegality of peer-to-peer file sharing.

 

References:

Borland, J. (2003). RIAA settles with 12-year-old girl. Retrieved September 9, 2006, from http://news.com.

Bylund, A. (2006). RIAA sues computer-less family, 234 others, for file sharing. Retrieved August 31, 2006, from http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060424-6662.html

Delgado, R. (2004, March). Law Professors examine ethical controversies of peer-to-peer file sharing. Stanford Report. Retrieved August 21, 2006, from http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2004/march17/fileshare-317.html.

Evangelista, B. (2005, March).  Downloading music and movie files is as popular as ever. But a decision by the Supreme Court could change that. The sharing goes on – Industry clampdown hasn’t hurt its popularity on college campuses. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 21, 2006, from http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artocle.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/28/BUG8RBULP81.DTL.

File-sharing: Over-ruling Ethics? (2005, April 4). Retrieved June 23, 2006, from the Ethics Scoreboard, http://www.ethicsscoreboard.com/list/filesharing2.html.

Hinman, Lawrence. M. (n.d.) Ethics Update – Glossary, retrieved on September 7, 2006 from, http://ethics.acusd.edu/Glossary.html

Kidder, R. M., (2003, September). Downloading Music is Good. Cheating is Bad. Why Teens Say Both. Ethics Newsline. Retrieved from http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/issue.tmpl?articleid=0929031601299.
Madden, M. and Lenhart, A. (2003).   Two-thirds of those who download music files or share files online say they don’t care whether the files are copyrighted or not – 35 million U.S. adults download music files online 26 million share files online. Pew Internet Project Data Memo. Retrieved on July 24, 2006, from, http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Copyright_Memo.pdf.
Madden, M. and Rainie, L. (2005).   One in five downloaders has copied files from other people’s iPODs or MP3 players – One in four gets files via email or instant messaging.Pew Internet Project Data Memo. Retrieved on July 21, 2006, from, http://www.pewtrusts.org/pdf/PIP_Filesharing_March05.pdf
Recording Industry Association of America, “About Us”, retrieved on September 4, 2006 from, http://www.riaa.com/about/default.asp.

Sangha, S., and P. A. Furman (2003, September). Sued for a song. New York Daily News. Retrieved September 1, 2006, from http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/116107p-104761c.html

 


 

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