A few choice quotes from this NYTimes article on culture clash between the Industry and some MP3 blogs they asked to post their music:
"Thanks!!" Gotta love the suit using extra exclamation marks in a form letter to seem cool.
And from a WB VP: "'We're really progressive in trying things,' she said." Priceless.
"Mr. Nosnitsky also mocked Warner for sending a rock track to a hip-hop site."

Is using a common plot device plagiarism? It's odd that they use this instead of copyright as a bludgeon--plagiarism has always been a more sane form of IP, in that Fair Use is accepted as long as you cite.

Individually-watermarked software to combat piracy. That's great, and a better solution than resorting to misguided laws, but it can still be cracked (at least in theory: just gather multiple copies of the software with different watermarks and you can figure out exactly where the watermark resides).

Paranoia surfs the high seas: Pirates of the Internet.
"But what's really at stake for the movie industry with all this piracy?
“Ultimately, our absolute future,” says Peter Chernin, who runs 20th Century Fox, one of the biggest studios in Hollywood.
He knows the pirates of the Internet are gaining on him.
“I think it's probably in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions,” says Chernin. “It's only gonna grow. Somebody can put a perfect digital copy up on the Internet. And with the click of a mouse, send out a million copies all over the world, in an instant.” "

--Ari