[mmbt0ne]

I will start with will's point a.

I agree that some parts of IP are very difficult to enforce, and are only going to get harder. But I think that, right now, those are mostly limited to mp3s for music, and video files for tv shows/movies/etc. Yeah, there are eBooks, but I see them on being on a much smaller scale simply based on my the people I know. This is probably because being on a computer for hours at a time reading something is really really boring, but that's beyond the point.

I can't say that I have the answer for IP protection (this isn't a utopia [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] ) but I see it as something that is necessary. Especially when it comes to people making a profit off of something. For instance, I think it's much more important to enforce IP in a case such as YouTube, where a separate company is making money off a non-employees work, than when Jack downloads a song from Bill.