Gresham's law Crown in the city of Antwerp, to explain to Queen Elizabeth I what was happening to the English shilling. Her father, Henry VIII, had replaced 40 percent of the silver in the coin with base metals, to increase the government's income without raising taxes. Astute English merchants and even ordinary subjects would save the good shillings from pure silver and circulate the bad ones; hence, the bad money would be used whenever possible, and the good coinage would be saved and disappear from circulation. Gresham was not the first to state the law which took his name. The phenomenon had
Good Copy Bad Copy film was eventually released for free on the internet as a BitTorrent download. The filmmakers hope that releasing "Good Copy Bad Copy" for free will raise awareness and lead to other local broadcasting networks to show the documentary. The documentary first appeared on The Pirate Bay and then it was officially released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license on the Blip.tv video sharing site. On 8 May 2008, "Good Copy Bad Copy" was shown on SVT2, Swedish Television. On 8 September 2009, "Good Copy Bad Copy" was shown on YLE FST5, Finnish Television. On 5 January 2010, "Good Copy Bad