Copyright and Regulation

The fact that someone can take someone else's article, turn it around completly, say you interviewed the orginal article's writer when in fact you did not, and publish it as your own is horrible. It is not like stealing a possesion because if that is stolen, you are without and worse off. If someone steals your ideas, you still have them. What is lost? Nothing, but if someone publishes your ideas then there should be a copyright law against it. They should be fined or you should be compensated.
Intellectual property has a whole different set of laws then physical property. It has copyright, patent, and trademark. Technology is allowing intellectual property to be spread all over the web and airwaves. Who is to say who said it first?
Pirarcy is a big problem. There are so many ways to download or burn CDs and DVDs of music and movies these days. It makes it really hard to regulate all of it or punish people for it. This is really bad for artists, entertainment companies are losing a lot of money.
Apple's iTunes is excellent at helping regulate copyrighted music and movies. You have to download it from them and pay a fee. Apple even has a group on facebook that will send you free downloads or give you a discount. There are other sites like iTunes that help this too.
I do not believe that there is way to get rid of illegal file sharing all together. I think people will always find a way to do it.
In high school, I used to be a regular to download music. I did not know it was illegal back then. The reason that I do not download music from Kazaa or Napster anymore is not because it is illegal, but that I would rather not get any viruses on my computer. My brothers and I stoped downloading music years ago when my mom would have to pay someone to clean out the computer drive all the time. I know there used to be a ton of viruses on those sites.