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Best Information Science Book of the Year, American Society for Information Science & Technology, 2002, Finalist in the 2001 Communication Policy Research Award presented by The Donald McGannon Communication Research Center. and Winner of the Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture presented by the Media Ecology AssociationThis book provides a framework for thinking about the law and cyberspace, examining the extent to which the Internet is currently under control and the extent to which it can or should be controlled. It focuses in part on the proliferation of MP3 file sharing, a practice made possible by the development of a file format that enables users to store large audio files with near-CD sound quality on a computer. By 1998, software available for free on the Web enabled users to copy existing digital files from CDs. Later technologies such as Napster and Gnutella allowed users to exchange MP3 files in cyberspace without having to post anything online. This ability of online users to download free music caused an uproar among music executives and many musicians, as well as a range of much-discussed legal action. Regulation strategies identif

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Author

Stuart Biegel

Publisher

The MIT Press; MIT Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262255738

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Computer Science, Law