www.eff.org / why you should care about copyright

1. Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
2. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
3. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
4. Ours is less and less a free society.

This is taken from Lawrence Lessig's /Free Culture/ speech at the OpenSource Convention. Read it and I think you'll agree that it's time to act to stop the entertainment industry from taking control of our shared culture.