The MP3 Controversy

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…money for music that is endorsed by the artists.” And the side in favor of MP3 is summed up by Perry Barlow, one of the founders of the cyber rights advocate Electronic Frontier Foundation, “My fear is that the music industry will come up with a standard that will help them bottle up the enormous value of music for their own gain…Their approach to piracy may sharply limit our own rights to fair use.”