Learning to live with piracy

Submitted by: Stevie Wonder

Source: ZDNet



With the Napster and DeCSS cases as the backdrop, entertainment moguls seek to find coexistence with digital download technology. No easy task.



LOS ANGELES -- An upsurge in Internet piracy is forcing the entertainment industry to grapple with an uncertain future, one where copyright protection and control over product distribution could be rendered obsolete.



It's an unsettling prospect. But this town, long a trendsetter in music and film, is still struggling how best to respond to the challenge posed by new Internet technologies that facilitate illegal digital downloads of CDs and movies.

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