Not quite to the point, but I learned recently (probably from BBC's program Click) that in Cuba, while there's more access to the internet now, it's non-net-int

Not quite to the point, but I learned recently (probably from BBC's program Click) that in Cuba, while there's more access to the internet now, it's non-net-intermediated piracy that's a huge thing in that very information enforcement-minded state. Massive libraries circulate from hand to hand. That's really the larger threat to copyright holders in the long run, it seems to me. To exaggerate what's now possible, if people can swap USBs with the contents of the library of congress or every song in the Billboard top 100 for the last decade, then you have a whole different order of difficulty for enforcement. A difficulty that I think was behind the (then shocking) decision long ago to legally allow people to record songs from the radio onto tape recorders for later listening. Preventing it was all but impossible, and it's clearly not advisable to pass laws that many or most people will violate as a matter of course. Close off one method, and another very good method steps up to the plate.