Jack Layton On File-Sharing

This is shaping up to be campaign issue, and positions are being drawn along party lines. Quelle surpise--Layton appears to come down on the side of the consumer, unlike Martin who automatically sides with his corporate cronies.

Layton's comments:

"I'm a holder of a copyright myself. But it's a book on homelessness and I don't mind if anyone wants to copy it," he says with a grin. "I'm still not so sure how (file sharing) impacts sales -- some studies even say it enhances them. I don't think the dust has settled on this yet. When I was at university there was a great fear that photocopying was going to destroy the publishing industry and that hasn't happened. It's sometimes best to muddle along, take things one step at a time and see what happens. Society can have a way of sorting things out."