I snuck out of work a bit early to catch Cory Doctorow giving a talk on the Copyfight, or the ongoing discussion about copyright and the struggle to create scarcity in a digital world.
He gave an excellent overview of the last 10 years or so, highlighting how technology and legislation have gone hand in hand trying to resolve this one way or another. They thing that occured to me while listening was in some ways how similiar the discussion sounds to the intelligent design/evolution debate over the past year. People inevitably find themselves on one side or another based on their background and who they've listened to in the past. It's very hard for one side to convince the other of their correctness.
In spite of that, Cory did a good job of explaining the changing landscape and how the laws have interacted in ways that no one expected. While I already knew a lot of this, he helped fill in the backstory and how it's all related. I can easily recommend going to one of his talks, you'll definitely learn something new.