I am taking the position that ripping off content is a bad thing, and Google led the pack by initially permitting all kinds of content into YouTube until such time as they could understand the metrics, and apply a revenue model based on advertising performance.
Today GigaOm and NewTeeVee’s Liz Gaines story jumped to BusinessWeek about the upside (or downside) the DMCA will have as a result of the real-time web.
It’s a great read and really delves into the pluses and minuses the real time web brings into the 3.0 era.