This is an excellent documentary about "the current state of copyright and culture" by Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen, and Henrik Moltke. It gets into the politics and history at play in the relatively recent trend of free and bootleg media sharing. The documentary crew interviewed a wide range of people who play a part in different sides of the the debate on music and movie piracy. They talk to the Motion Picture Association of America, the people at The Pirate Bay, Creative Commons, bootleg DVD salesmen in Moscow, Nollywood producers in Lagos, Techno Brega artists in Brazil, as well as a few American artists who are well known for their terrific acts of copyright infringement; Girl Talk, and DJ Danger Mouse. So if you got an hour to spare sometime and want to learn a little bit about all the politics and philosophies behind all this free shit we get, its definitely worth the watch.
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You should read The Pirate's Dilemma by Matt Mason the guy who co-founded Vice magazine and Footsteps In the Dark by George Lipsitz. Both excellent reads
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