The original hackers at places like MIT, Berkeley and Stanford had a clear code of ethics. All information should be free. Mistrust authority-promote decentralization. Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not by other criteria. One can create art and beauty on a computer.
Computers can change one's life for the better.
John Perry Barlow's outspoken manifesto. Canada's Bill C-32 attempts to regulate unauthorized use of intellectual property, especially difficult in a time of transition from analogue to digital media. The technology of the Internet encourages the widespread distribution of content, and most of this content can be quickly and easily copied and transformed. Questions of intellectual property have also been complicated by the postmodern aesthetic which often makes extensive use of sampling, versioning, and collaging of sound and visual elements to make new works of art. The following web-sites provide information on current copyright issues.