Resources

ACTIVISM
Downhill Battle is a music activism site working to bring positive change to the music industry. We created and run BannedMusic.org

Illegal Art is a wonderful exhibit and website that presents artwork which has been legally attacked.

Grey Tuesday was a historic online protest on February 24, 2004. More than 170 sites defied legal threats from EMI and hosted the Grey Album, which was downloaded more than 100,000 times. BannedMusic.org builds on the success of Grey Tuesday.

Negativland is a band that has faced several major copyright lawsuits for sample-based music.
READINGS
The Grey Album New York Times Magazine, March 21, 2004.

Defiant Downloads Rise from Digital Underground New York Times, February 25, 2004

Changing Copyright by Negativland

Copyrights and Copywrongs by Siva Vaidhyanathan

BitTorrent FAQ - Get started using BitTorrent.

BIT TORRENT CLIENTS
Multiple platforms:

BitTorrent - the orginal BitTorrent software, simple and solid. Mac, Windows, Linux.

Azureus - Java-Based client

Windows only:

Torrent Storm - a very nice client with multiple downloads and upstream throttling (helpful if your internet gets slow when using BitTorrent).

Shareaza - combined BitTorrent, Gnutella and Edonkey client.

TORRENT SITES
-LegalTorrents
-SuprNova.org
-DotTorrent
-Torrentz.com
-WrestlingTorrents.tk (seriously, wrestling)