Metatron's Link Dump

Music industry downturn not related to file sharing

Decentralized intelligence may be best (via The Corner)

CBS Report on Rumsfeld's 9/11 Notes Under Scrutiny

Why it is hard to share the wealth

AllofMP3.com escapes criminal lawsuit with legal loophole                                 (Russian criminal law only applies to physical goods) (via Waxy)

In a speech one month before the start of the Iraq war in 2003, Mr Bush laid out the strategy: “The world has a clear interest in the spread of democratic values, because stable and free nations do not breed the ideologies of murder. They encourage the peaceful pursuit of a better life.” (via Instapundit)

Glenn's got the best tagline:  More Homeland Security Screwups (via Instapundit)

More on the Japanese navy and its ties to US policy

Nope, no liberal bias here

Internet2: Orchestrating the End of the Internet? (via Unmediated)

Free Software Foundation amicus brief in the Grokster case

Pro-P2P Amicus briefs (via BoingBoing)

Media professors' SCOTUS brief on why P2P should be legal

Complete collection of AP RSS feeds (via Unmediated)

Middle East sees voting as good thing

Sudan genocide going on unimpeded

There seems to be some tension between the attitudes taken in these two articles:  Taliban Giving Up in Afghanistan?  (via Instapundit) and Afghanistan: A New Warning, although The Counterterrorism Blog's article does derive from a United Nations report.

Libertarians in the Republican Party discussion