Some Like it hot: what is his arguement and how does he support it?

His argument is that many now legitimate forms of entertainment and media were once definable as pirated material, much like our P2p programs are now; and like them, p2p will most likely be accepted as a legitimate media with the appropriate laws to govern it. He used examples of the film industry, cable television, and several others, which during their beginning were considered illegal for many years due to violations of intellectual and media rights. He describes in details how the film industry could not get off legitimately due to the intellectual property of phonographs. The industry had to move far away where the laws were weak and grew until it was accepted. Being a novel method of distribution, P2P currently does not have appropriate laws to govern it, and it is the job of the government to create them.