RSSMedia's NMT Blog

A recent court ruling has added fuel to the debate about the threat of piracy versus creative freedom offered by new technologies. The argument centres around restricting the ability of technology to allow law-breaking; VCRs were cleared of this charge in the mid-1980s, but the issue is back. One group is concerned that devices we today find useful may be rendered unusable if industry bodies get their way. For your exam, you should consider both sides of the argument; the high volume of legal discussion means there is no clearly 'right' answer. For example, peer-to-peer networks have been condemned for allowing illegal file-sharing and praised as the ultimate method of archiving and distributing the world's digital content.