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Fri 03 Mar 2007Hollywood's copyright police must face new realityNet Results: Although some tabloid journalists may not agree, it's generally accepted that the job of journalists is to report the news rather than make it, writes  John Collins.This thought flashed through my mind recently when I answered the phone to a representative of BT Ireland. The voice on the other end asked me to confirm that I had a broadband service from BT. After answering in the affirmative he dropped his bombshell: "We've been contacted by Paramount Movies to say that you've been sharing a copyrighted title of theirs, An Inconvenient Truth."