Hollywoodreporter.com

RIAA attacks college study on file sharing: "A study from researchers at two elite universities attacking the notion that Internet file sharing is to be blamed for declining music sales has prompted the industry's trade association to issue a six-page response rebutting the study. The RIAA issued its lengthy statement late Tuesday in response to a study released Monday called 'The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis,' which was authored by researchers at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The Harvard-UNC study was immediately heralded by those who share music files over the Internet as proof that their behavior should not be criminalized, and many Web sites friendly to peer-to-peer networks posted highlights of the study."