An arranger from a previous gig I spoke at sent me one of the best summaries of the copyright wars I’ve seen so far. It’s from the FreeNet Philosophy FAQ.
This is what I say in my “Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties” keynote, but condensed into one paragraph:
Of course much of Freenet’s publicity has centered [...]

The FTD case in Netherlands keeps getting uglier.
The original case was weird enough – that a judge would pass verdict against a mere forum, saying that discussing file names is legally the same thing as publishing the files behind the names and therefore committing copyright infringement. The forum FTD was therefore ordered shut down by [...]