[Year 12 IT Apps] RE: Interesting take on the music industries complaints re file sharing!

[Davies, Brett]

http://www.bspcn.com/2009/02/27/how-to-kill-the-music-industry/

worth discussing with students maybe? 

For those who are  not aware,  the Pirate Bay is currently in court over file sharing:

http://www.thelocal.se/9795/20080128/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/feb/26/pirate-bay-trial-roses

The students we have in our classrooms right now have never known a time when they cannot just download almost anything they want instantly. For many of them its almost a measure of their "IT prowess" as to how fast they can find something they want without paying.