Intellectual Property on the Internet

The internet has slowly crept up on us in the last 10 to 15 years, and there are now legal issues about intellectual property, and wether the internet should act as a common carrier or a publisher, let me explain. A telephone company, for example, is a common carrier. If an obscene caller is bothering you, the phone company will co-operate with police, but nobody thinks it's the phone company's fault some creep keeps calling you. Magazines …

…Also, the problem of downloading Movies from the networks also needs to be resolved somehow, since Hollywood studios are loosing money from ticket and VHS, DVD sales. Spreading music to the deprived, sharing the songs no one knows and creating a new freedom for music is definitely something that should be considered as an option in this case because if radio and television can slide off copyrights then can't there be a way for Kazaa?