Plenary: how to become an internet felon in three easy steps: will digital libraries become digital stores?

A few years ago Hollywood and the music industry discovered the Internet and realized, much to their horror, that the technology now exists to make arbitrary numbers of perfect copies of a digitized object. As a result, we have seen an explosion of legislative and treaty proposals. Legislation was recently passed that attempts to protect intellectual property on the Net by outlawing some devices and technologies that can be used to "circumvent" measures restricting access. This legislation has several bad features, among them the unintended side effect of making some legitimate computer security research illegal. It could even criminalize some techniques that are required to correct Y2K problems. Both the legislation that is passed and the manner in which technology is implemented will have a major impact on the rights and responsibilities of creators and users of intellectual property. How will copyright he impacted? What will happen to user rights of fair use and first sale? Are we moving from copyright protection of books and magazines on the net to contract law, and if so, what are the potential repercussions? Will free libraries become a thing of the past, to be replaced by pay-per-view?The manner in which these questions are resolved will have a significant impact on our society.