One BIG point is this
If someone file shares a copyrighted work, then legal action should ONLY be possible against them if it can be shown that an open and legal way of obtaining the work was available at the time, in a format compatible with the consumers equipment (i.e. PC... so this could included DVDs providing they are not protected by DRM or claims about not copying).
Ofcom, get off your butt and do something
The DEbill has set out the need for Ofcom to prepare letters that will go out to people the copyright owners claim to be infringing. These letters have now been published. The content is 93% about how you are being a bad boy, and just 7% about where and how you can get legal downloads.
The facts are that you can't.
And until the media industry changes all that - a complete change in business model - and makes all things they want protected by copyright available online, then the consumer is being persecuted unfairly.
New copyright laws with a better balance between the industry and the consumer have to be made. It is crazy that an industry prosecutes the very customers it is trying to sell to.
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