I discuss digital copyright issues a great deal here on Geek News Central and one of the reasons is that it is one of the top issues that we are facing on the Net today. Companies, Artist, writers are terrified that there copyrighted intellectual has made it very easy for people to outright steal the information there has been a tendency for people to not give proper credit and actually plagiarize whole articles as there own. This is not to mention the monetary lost.
We all know about acceptable user but we also know that something has to be done. We still want our music we want access to technical research and copyrighted works. The referenced article goes into some of these fundamental issues. They cover the fundamental issues of intellectual property and the dilemma we face with government regulations and industries rights and consumer concerns. [heritage.org]