The Web has finally discovered the copyright
issue, but still at a naive level.
The excitement over Napster has been about the right to download and save content in whole files and chunks. This does not even begin to address the much deeper issue of how we can sensibly re-use content among on-line documents.
For scholarship, for understanding, and for appreciation, we need to be able to quote things in large quantity, in open republication-- but no one has seen the obvious path, which has always been the Xanadu model.
Never mind about the Napster-style thieving by night. The Xanadu project proposes an honest method that can be used in the open by people with day jobs and supported openly by ethical service providers.