This is something worth downloading for those interested in the expression of digital rights in the modern world, or rather lack of them
http://headlesschicken.ca/eng204/media/The Debate
On the 14th of April 2005, Cornell University hosted a debate between an EFF staffer, a copyfighting academic, and legal heads of the RIAA, MPAA, Napster II and Universal. The three-hour debate raised numerous issues not only to do with peer-to-peer filesharing, but also with the history of expression, with the rights of publishers and distributors, with those of writers and readers, viewers, and listeners, and with the potential futures for digital texts.
Its great to see this sort of activity being indulged in as many folks are not sure who is behind what and where those pushing draconian ideas on the rest of us are coming from.
