I delayed posting this link as I had to check the content was not just industry twaddle, after watching the whole video I can see its a very reasonable work covering many aspects of the copyright isssue from the Canadian point of view.
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1193The music industry has some tough competition: illegitimate Internet downloading. The solutions thus far have consisted of DRMs and shutting down the P2P networks. DRM, as far as CDs go anyways, really have not impacted the volume of piracy going on. But it has made it a pain for legitimate customers. Shutting down P2P networks is a futile effort - people just switch over to the next new fangled service. It can be made illegal, attempts can be made at filtering it, thousands of lawsuits can be launched - but the problem will not simply vanish.
The video can be obtained here
http://files.pig-monkey.com/video/piracydocumentary_agk.aviI hope some of you gain an insight from this video and wish to thank Julien McArdle for this creative commons work
