Behind the music: Mystery of the filesharing windfalls

When individuals are sued for illegal filesharing, in cases such as the IFPI v Kazaa, where does the money go?Earlier this week, the Guardian published a blogpost by Joel Tenenbaum about the lawsuit brought against him by the US record company trade organisation, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), for what he called "wanting to share Come As You Are with other Nirvana fans" (actually, it's for sharing some 800 songs over four years on P2P networks). Of course, everyone I've sp...

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