To be legal, or medieval? That is the suggestion.

I had a friend ask me the other day if it was legal to provide my
readers a link to “bootlegs” and sites that give away complete albums
on their servers.  I asked my friend if she thought it was illegal
for a journalist to write about or show footage of war?  Well, I
don’t know if the analogy makes sense to you, but it does to me. 
I direct my readers to mp3’s I’ve come across, not because I believe in
the open market mp3 file sharing philosophy, but because I believe
the internet is an unchartered dimension that requires good tour
guides.

For those of you interested in legally protecting your music or art work, visit Creative Commons:

 ”Creative Commons offers a flexible range of protections and
freedoms for authors and artists. We have built upon the “all rights
reserved” of traditional copyright to create a voluntary “some rights reserved”
copyright. We’re a nonprofit. All of our tools are free.”

For those of you down with the revolution before the revolution is bought out by Googlemart, visit the radical folks at Illegal Art:

  
” If the current copyright laws had been in effect back in the
day, whole genres such as collage, hiphop, and Pop Art might have never
have existed.”