Despite U.S. court battles over music copyright, an Irish programmer has developed a program that will make it impossible to control the traffic in any kind of digital information

Freenet is intended to make it possible to acquire any digital information anonymously. Other programs with similar intent are also emerging world-wide. Corporations are trying to develop complex technologies to encrypt information or otherwise halt the free sharing of computer data.

This article from the New York Times covers both sides of the issue.