"Students are starting to make the connection between copyright and larger political issues ..."

From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed.:

Industry Executives and Copyright Activists Debate File Sharing at a Cornell U. Colloquium By BROCK READ Wednesday, April 20, 2005

When a who's who of entertainment-industry executives and digital-rights activists descended on Cornell University for a colloquium on downloading, they found Cornell's students more than eager to debate the past, present, and future of music and movie piracy.

The colloquium, "The Downloading Debate Strikes Back," pitted some of the chief architects of the entertainment industry's antipiracy campaign against two of the industry's most vocal opponents.

The rest of the article, which includes a Real Player video recording of the discussion (not-free registration req'd): http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/04/2005042001t.htm