The latest entertainment craze to sweep the internet has got the film and television industries worried. Thousands of amateur video clips, rare footage of music concerts and home-made film spoofs are now being uploaded every day to the video-sharing website YouTube for the enjoyment of millions of web users around the world.

Could it be that America's leader in the global fight against movie piracy is a pirate too? That's what documentary director Kirby Dick alleges. He says the Motion Picture Association of America made a bootleg copy of This Film Is Not Yet Rated, his angry broadside against the organization's film rating system.

Canadian MP Sam Bulte has been accused of taking campaign contributions from the copyright industries and supporting laws serving industry interests. The attack has come from Canadian fileswappers, who accuse the MP of potentially misleading her consitutuents during an all-candidates meeting.