Depends on your particular country's laws on copyright. Where I am it was never something bothered about until our country signed a trade deal with the USA. After that some of USA's industries wanted to 'force' changes to our laws on copyright. Force changes to how our ISP's worked. Basically they wanted to throw USA's laws across here wanting to control everything. I'm not sure anything positive really came out of the USA trade deal for 'us'. I get the feeling we've been invaded by another country.

For us the USA trade agreements has not meant cheaper audio CD's, or cheaper cinema tickets, or cheaper DVD sales, or cheaper software. Just their blackmailing of our government in their typical 'slimey' dogmatic fashion. They are not much better than the mafia how they operate (MIAA, etc.)