A petition entitled “Share – Do Not Steal” was held by about 36 groups and 1,750 copyright holders in Norway today with the goal of ending the horrors of file-sharing. This includes over 1750 artists and musicians along with television, movie, game and software corporations.

As indicated in the article entitled “Dozens of Copyright Groups Petition Against File-Sharing”, they are not against file-sharing per se. They are just against unauthorized filesharing. For them, “Legal file sharing is good. Illegal file sharing is theft”.

The problem I see in this endeavor is that can “unauthorized file-sharing” really be removed? With the rise of P2P as well as torrents, it is very hard to track who are the legal from the illegal file-sharers.

I guess it is not impossible. It can happen if they can implement a system. As they proposed, they just wanted protection. They relayed how “currently the systematic and organized piracy of digital media is carried out to the extent that the very existence of the basis for artists, composers, artists, filmmakers, writers and other rights holders are threatened,” I guess copyright as well privacy will always been an issue in our expanding world of technology, and even more on the expanding reach of the Internet.

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