Nah the funny thing is that according to copyright laws if you buy a CD and play it on a player with speakers (meaning your whole familly can listen to it) you are already breaching the law. And coudl be convicted by it. But since it would be impossible to convict so many famillies and people just for listening the song they had to either modify the law or tollerate stuff.
It turns out that here they modified the law when it comes to books. You are even allowed to make a copy of whole book if it is ment for personal need and not for selling (ie. for example for education). you can also copy parts of books. as many times you like. which i find a bit bizzare since if you can copy parts you can copy the hwole as well.
They didn't change the law here when it comes to music, films or software. But they did ddecide to be hunting down only those that are making profit with it. but again people who do it for personal use are not prosecuted. this will have to change too, since like books there is more and more material found on CD and is later used for study and education.
And they guy is right when he says that not all countries have same copyright laws (which i already told once). There are some international conventions on this matter, yet from country to ocuntry they are differently interpreted. A country that dares to oppose the US pressure will look differently on these laws. And when you see pictures of the battle against "pirates" from China, and how they are breaking those CD always have in mind they are not doing that to prevent the games from spreading but to prevent porn from spreading. most of those countries have a myriad of open markets where you can buy pirate software or games. but beware of buying porn, because if they catch you doing that, you could get beaten up.
Laregsings posted on the roads will tell you porn is bad but not "software piracy is bad".
As for P2P services i think they are ok. it's all about sharing epople...
seriously a lot of opensource programes are offered via P2P. last one i downloaded like that was Open office.
Another thing is that maybe people would be more willing to buy programmes if they werent' so freakin expencive. a copy of music (art) costs from 4-7EUR), a copy of programme costs 20EUR and more. for example i needed a programe for some school work and i would only need it for a year or two, just to learn it. well the programme costs 600EUR and above. so i had to find alternative ways of getting it (but wasn't the P2P).