ARE YOU WANTED?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has set up an online “Subpoena Database” where you can enter in a username or IP address and find out if you have been subpoenaed by the RIAA for illegal file sharing. The information, according to the EFF, is drawn from the Washington, D.C., District Court's publicly available PACER database and is updated when that database is updated. www.eff.org/IP/P2P/riaasubpoenas
35 MILLION ON THE NET — Two-Thirds Don't Care About Copyright
In a recent survey released by the nonprofit group Pew Internet & American Life Project, data gathered from March 2003 to May 2003, 67% of those surveyed said that they do not care whether the music they are downloading is copyrighted or not. A little over a quarter of these downloaders said that they do care, and 6% said that they don't have a position or know enough about the issue. These numbers are up 6% from last published data in August 2000.
While downloading seems to be the most prevalent activity for those surveyed, file sharing was not: Only 21% of current Internet users said that they share files from their computers. Young adults continue to dominate downloading: More than half of all Internet users, according to the findings, between the ages of 18 and 29 have downloaded music, and almost 10% of those in that age group are online downloading music on any given day. Americans between the ages 30 and 49 are also downloading regularly, with more than a quarter of Internet users in that age group reporting that they have downloaded music to their computers.
Visit www.pewinternet.org to find out more.
GO PHISH ONLINE
At livephish.com, Phish aficionados can download the band's concerts within two days of the concert — getting three-plus hours of music from the sound board — for $9.95 (MP3) or $12.95 (higher-fidelity FLAC files, Mac OS X-only).
In addition to the live shows, downloaders can obtain a free copy of the group's soundcheck and a late-night jam session that took place atop an air traffic control tower.
But Phish isn't the only band raking in the online bucks: Pearl Jam offers exclusive MP3 versions of its concerts at pearljambootlegs.com, as well as The Who, String Cheese Incident and Ween (ween.com).
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