I subscribed to The Trichordist a few weeks back.  It's a group blog/website that focuses on content from the artists point of view.  I did this partially because I want to track what intelligent and reasonable people are arguing from the creator's side of the content wars (I do not include the Author's Guild in this group).  I also follow them because my ideas have been evolving as I have taken a deeper and more long term look at the economic impact of open content on creator's livelihood.  There are a few of us in the tech world that actually support creator's recognize the strength of their arguments...

Anyhow, they have a great post linking to an article in Torrent Freak (another site I follow about PayPal's decision to stop supporting sites that violate their Intellectual Property statement.

Read both the Thrichordist article and the Torrent Freak article and you can get a great snapshot of the distance between the two sides.  Libraries are stuck in the middle because we have always been open access by nature, BUT we have also supported Intellectual Property and author's rights too.  Unfortunately, too many librarians have simplistic conceptions about IP and copyright, which will not serve us we