This piece in today's Guardian is fascinating and beautifully argued. Alexandros Stavrakas makes many great points. Do read the whole article. I especially like his articulation of the idea that the words piracy and theft are, at the very least, unhelpful in the context of people 'illegally' file-sharing (my quotation marks)...
"... people who participate in the exchange of immaterial works do not treat them as property. When they exchange music, books or movies, they are not merely transferring ownership from themselves to others; they simply do not recognise themselves as owners in the first place."
and this line about the costs being proposed for policing piracy...
"Could, for instance, the considerable resources that might be allocated to protecting, policing and, ultimately, sanctioning online file-sharing not be used for rendering it less financially damaging for the creative sector?"
is a healthy dose of common sense echoing the thoughts in the first posting below.
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