In the Boston Globe, Harvard Law professor John Palfrey writes an op-ed about The digital copyright crisis
Given that so many people break the law every day using these networks by copying music files, how can this possibly be a good decision? Indeed, in the short term, the decision appears to be bad for many people who own copyrights — the record companies, some of the artists who write and sing the songs, and the movie studios. The solution to the problem, though, is not to ban a new technology because it can be used to make illegal copies. Such logic would have left us in a world without VCRs, tape recorders, or photocopy machines. Such logic might even extend to computers themselves. After all, in a digital age, every time we surf the Internet, save a file to our hard drives, or share files on a network, we make copies. Copyright law is out of date.
