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43 San Diego L. Rev. 577 (2006)
The Law and Norms of File Sharing

handle is hein.journals/sanlr43 and id is 601 raw text is: The Law and Norms of File Sharing YUVAL FELDMAN* JANICE NADLER** TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. IN TRO D U CTION .................................................................................................. 579 II. FILE SHARING: LAW ON THE BOOKS AND LAW N ACTION .................................. 581 A . Law on the B ooks ..................................................................................... 58 1 B . L aw in A ction ........................................................................................... 582 1. Extent of Unlawful File Sharing ....................................................... 582 2. Harms Associated with Unlawful File Sharing ................................. 583 C. Moral Acceptability of Unlawful File Sharing ......................................... 584 1. Intangible as F ree ............................................................................. 585 2. The Internet as Free .......................................................................... 585 3. Privacy, Convenience, and Lack ofAlternatives ............................... 586 4. Exp erim entation ................................................................................ 586 5. Perceptions of Legality ..................................................................... 586 6. Perceptions of Recording Industry Greed ......................................... 587 D. Industry Response to Violations of Copyright Law .................................. 588 E. The Gap Between Law and Norms ........................................................... 589 II1. EFFECT OF LAWS ON SOCIAL NORMS .................................................................. 591 A. The Destructive Impact of Formal Laws on the Function and Nature of Norms .......... .............................. 591 B. The Lack of Impact of Formal Laws on Social Norms ............................. 594 * Assistant Professor, Bar-lan University, Faculty of Law, yfeldman@mail.biu.ac.il. ** Professor, Northwestern University School of Law, and Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation, jnadler@law.northwestem.edu. For their helpful comments andA ,discussions, .... tha.-- Alex Geis A--.a .... i aiu n:, -:c'-i i - '-..... Gideon Parchomovsky, and Matthew Sag. For their valuable research assistance, we thank Beth Stevens, Nitzan Wulkan, and Omer Wagner. We thank the American Bar Foundation for its financial support.

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