This isn't so much a problem in Canada as courts have ruled that the recording industry can only go after file "uploaders" of copyrighted works (read: music) but use of P2P technologies is and will become a hotter issue globally moving forward.
Prof Ed Felton posted an excellent piece today on the Future of Filesharing something I suggest all parents of teenagers read (if not everyone).
In a related post Prof Lawrence Lessig chimes in here on a US government "fast track" regularory program introduced by Sen Orin Hatch which would criminalize the act of inducing another to commit a copyright violation by making software or any technology available with this ability -- whether it's intended to or not.
Can you say: "legitimate non-infringing use" ? :-)
UPDATE: and this just in...
"FOR GOD'S SAKE WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!"
UPDATE: Ernest Miller savages Orrin Hatch's grotesque new law (via BoingBoing)
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