Kabuki Music

Music File-Sharing Does Not Hurt CD Sales: Study
Despite hundreds of lawsuits on file sharers from the RIAA and loud cries that P2P networks are all to blame, research at Harvard Business School and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill concludes that downloads have zero effect on sales.
story.news.yahoo.com/

File Sharing Doesn't Affect Films and Music Sales
Argues that P2P doesn't threaten music, musicmaking or musicians because sales are at all time highs.
www.webspawner.com/

News.com - File sharing legal in Canada
Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled.
news.com.com/

Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War
Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs.
www.canadiancontent.net/

Salon - 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.
www.salon.com/

JNap
Napster clone written in Java. [Open Source, GPL]
www.perham.net/

OpenNap
Open source Napster server.
opennap.sourceforge.net/

Gnutella News
News and information about Gnutella and issues surrounding it, such as Napster, FreeNet and the RIAA.
www.gnutellanews.com/

Execs vow global crackdown on music file sharing
[CNN]
www.cnn.com/

The Ballad Free File Sharing Network
Allow users of several file sharing programs to connect to their network of servers to search for and download items in a P2P environment.
www.balladp2p.com/