Remember that web site that actively encouraged visitors to upload entire contents of magazines? It was obviously a blatant violator of copyright law, but it was an offshore operation with false Whois information and thus considered outside the reach of the law. But leading magazine publishers and the Magazine Publishers of America traced the site [...]

Passage of PRO-IP in the House and Senate wasn’t the only major congressional development this week. This development involves free-market negotiations. Longtime readers will know I’ve written for years about the merits of market-negotiated agreements over statutory rate decisions, and nowhere is a fresh does of market reality more needed than in the music business. [...]