Piracy can be combated without heavy-handed legislation, largely by coming up with better access to digital media online and through trust-building between industry and their customer base.

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And what do their emotions teach us about the challenge of building public support for anti-poverty legislation more generally?

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For accountants, the harshest aspect of the new legislation is its outright ban on nine kinds of non-audit service, including building financial-information systems, legal services and investment banking.

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