Get Ready For Another Forty Years Of Corporate Copyright Bullshit

Rick Falkvinge
August 26, 2012
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I was on a debate panel in Edinburgh, UK this week; a panel about the copyright monopoly conflict. I have had this feeling in my gut for some time, but it became clear on this panel: we’re going to be debating the same topics with the same arguments for another 40 years.

Do you remember when Napster came around twelve years ago, and everybody said the digital copyright wars would be replaced by a new equilibrium?

Today we can easily observe that this hasn’t happened. We’re in exactly the same positions today as we were a decade ago.

As I was talking on this debate panel, representatives of the (obsolete) middlemen repeated two themes over and over: “we have rights, we have rights, we have rights” and “we need more time to adjust, we need more time”.

The latter was quite easily defused by asking “So… you demand that the world must wait for you to catch up with it?”, whereas the former will probably be heard for another forty years.

People who think they have the moral right to control what other people discuss, transmit, use, and copy simply are not going to abandon that point of view. They will assert that right as superior to any civil liberty, forever.

Anybody who is able to adapt by reading the dead-obvious writing on the wall has already done so. Those who religiously keep repeating the same mantra today as they did a decade ago will keep doing so.

In other words, we’re pretty much stuck with the copyright monopoly pundits and maximalists we have today for the rest of their natural lives.

Of course, this doesn’t include the masses of people who merely have a casual interest in the copyright monopoly. But it does include those who were schooled in the wonders of monopolies twenty or thirty years ago, and have been working in a bubble protected from outside influences ever since then. Almost all the world’s new creators are already working in the new paradigm; creating despite the copyright monopoly, rather than because of it.

So what I said to the “we have rights, we have rights” panelist was that they should be careful asserting rights given by law, for those laws can and will change as the 250 million Europeans who share culture come into power. 250 million people is not an adolescence problem; it is a power base of 250 million voters. As these people start writing laws, they can and will kill those monopolies at the stroke of a pen.

So, sadly, it seems that a universal truth comes into play here: Viewpoints of society don’t change because people in society change. Viewpoints of society change because people defending the obsolete viewpoint die out.

In other words, prepare for another forty years of corporate bullshit.

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Rick Falkvinge is a regular columnist on TorrentFreak, sharing his thoughts every other week. He is the founder of the Swedish and first Pirate Party, a whisky aficionado, and a low-altitude motorcycle pilot. His blog at falkvinge.net focuses on information policy.

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Phil

Your conclusion is in full agreement with Thomas Kuhn’s idea of paradigm shift.
I sadly beleive it is true.
- yello
  
  i purely choose not to accept this.
  - Anon
    
    Let the people who make the art, make the rules around the use of that art and let all of us respect that. Each artist will flourish or perish based on their own creations and the rules they place around them, the perfect level playing field. But pirating? That was never fair. That was a digital product ransacking while the world watched uncertain what to do while law and technology took real time while digital industries floundered. Now we know what to do and we are doing it.
    - Mr_Phaedrus
      
      Piracy (free sharing of culture) is what creates the perfect level playing field. It turns the market for culture into one where people pay to support the creators they love and for what they want to see created, instead of paying to be allowed to access existing culture as passive consumers. It is completely fair.
    - Anyone
      
      how is tricking me into watching a shitty movie with a great trailer a “level playing field”?
      
      nowadays I can simply check out the movie beforehand, and if I like it I can support the artist that made it (so long as they have no MAFIAA ties, of course)
    - Fredrika
      
      > “Let the people who make the art, make the rules around the use of that art..”
      
      Usually entrepreneurs are not allowed to dictate that they should be excluded from the free market. Society has no reason or need whatsoever to allow them such an unusual power in this case.
      
      > “..and let all of us respect that.”
      
      Why should anyone respect an entrepreneur that thinks he should be excluded from the free market, with illegitimate legislation that doesn’t follow the rules of law, regarding proven need, function and proportionality?
      
      > “Each artist will flourish or perish based on their own creations and the rules they place around them, the perfect level playing field.”
      
      Usually the free market where no entrepreneur have a legislative monopoly is considered a perfect level playing field. But you disagree with the free market?
      
      > “But pirating? That was never fair.”
      
      Pirating is the equivalent of free market behaviour, were anyone is free to manufacture and distribute any goods and services, but you again say that the free market isn’t fair? Are you advocating communism or a planned economy?
      
      > “Now we know what to do and we are doing it.”
      
      Who are we? If you mean the content industry,no, they are definitely not doing it, there is not one single service on the market that offers what piracy offers, in regards to wide range of content, format of content, choice of required software and immediate release dates, not even close.
    - DeyRail
      
      Alas, the people who make the art hardly benefit from the current copyright system at all. The actual money goes to the copyright holders whom by all means had little to nothing to do with the creation of the actual product.
      
      The playing field hasn’t been fair for years.
      
      While illegal downloading is most certainly a problem for the industry, one does not solve a problem by targeting the response to said problem, it’s the reasons why the problem exists that should be dealt with.
      There’s a plethora of reasons as to why the problem exists in the first place. Severely over-priced items, system requirement scams, outdated business models, blatant false advertisement, products that don’t function properly or at all and the most important reason: a severe lack of availability, especially on an international level.
      
      The playing field you speak of exists due to and is controlled by the rule of supply and demand. When the market fails to produce an answer to the demand, the consumer will try their luck elsewhere. It’s as simple as that.
      
      Rather than respond to consumer demands or taking a good look at their own outdated business strategies, most companies choose to ignore the underlying issues entirely opting instead for expensive legal warfare against websites that can be recreated easily enough. Not to mention bribing government officials and even going as far as to threaten foreign governments into pushing through new laws that breach human rights. It’s a loss-loss in any way you look at it.
      
      Quite a few companies are finally waking up though. Gaming companies especially are taking a close look at newer formulas such as free-to-play systems involving micro-payments, with quite a bit of success. If it hadn’t been for iTunes for example, the music industry would be in an even more dismal state than it already is.
    - Scary_Devil_Monastery
      
      You mean that because you formulated a text you should be able to prevent me to do whatever I want to do with my own property?
      
      That’s where your theory regarding “fair” breaks down completely.
      
      Copyright is not a question of property rights. It’s a question regarding SEVERE restrictions of property rights of anyone else. And as such it simply is not ok.
    - Wormlore
      
      Funny you would say that, when the ones advocating the harshest copyright laws were the first ones to “pirate” according to their own terms.
      See Disney’s first creations… and current Disney’s stance on copyright. You’ll be amazed at how he broke his own current rules while rising to the top.
      So, all of that is not “a perfect level playing field”, quite the opposite. It’s a “king of the hill” field, with a harsh slope to climb by any means necessary, and a peak position to defend by crushing the ones climbing after you.
    - MrScaredForTheFuture
      
      Its not that about that at all. The government just wants to have complete control over the flow of information, look at the U.S.. Now they track all data usage, messages, email. Is that where we are going in this worldwide information dominance oligarchy?
- Lauren72
  
  I don’t think these ‘ideas’ can die out with people. They’ll just hire new lobbyists and pundits who share their interest in protecting the intellectual property of the corporation they all work for, and they’ll keep doing it as long as the copyright expires. By which time they should have used to profits from previous copyrights to acquire more copyrights.
  
  It’s business, as usual.
  - Guest
    
    Those people they employ though will have grown up in a new era where sharing is not a bad thing. They might do it for the money, but they won’t believe what they’re doing is right. At the moment, the monopolies really are blind. They just don’t understand.
- Geronimo
  
  “In other words, we’re pretty much stuck with the copyright monopoly pundits”
  
  Not so sadly in fact unless your are talking about the point of view of the monopoly “pundits”.
  
  The inescapable and logical conclusion is that we have to shorten the life of these pundits to save the society and the planet and we are going to do just that.
  - Mr_Phaedrus
    
    I don’t believe in the right to control the use of your product once it’s been sold, but I do believe in the right to live, so I probably won’t condone murder even if it leads to the demise of the copyright monopolies.
    - Guest
      
      Abortion by coercion? You know, like slipping a mickey of RU-486 into the cocktails of the lobbyists’ wives/daughters? ;-)
- thedude321
  
  I have no idea who this Kuhn guy is, but its good to see Ricky posting. But just one thing ricky, how come you didn’t know this? If you had a pot of gold, you’d keep it…what the monopolists have is an easy ticket to luxury…why on earth would they give that up without a fight?
- Ricardo Mittelstaedt
  
  You reminded me that I need to read his book. Off to isohunt I mean Amazon.
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Guest

I thought dinosaurs died millions of years ago!
- Bert
  
  The dinosaurs evolved into that big yellow bird and his friend miss piggy, err… I mean Hillary Rosen, former boss lady at the RIAA. I am pretty sure that the MPAA guy Chris Dodd is the cookie monster
  - Ernie
    
    Hillary Rosen is a pig for sure. She is now a government lobyist for the democrat partie instead of a government lobyist for the record companies. You can get the bacon out of the pigs but you cant get the pigs out of Washington.
    - http://twitter.com/Kylechf Kylechf
      
      jMichelle responded I’m stunned that someone can make $8779 in 1 month on the network. did you look at this(Click on menu Home)
    - http://twitter.com/Kylechf Kylechf
      
      like…@google-b7912475bd9d3f3834f83553dec15cde:disqus ,
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    - http://profile.yahoo.com/ZE2QKDYSRBM3RRYZTCYSUZVPNU DumpFacebook
      
      “Hillary Rosen is a pig for sure. She is now a government lobyist for the democrat party instead of a government lobyist for the record companies. ”
      Yet ANOTHER reason in a list of many I’m not a democrat nor voting for one in November.
- Tixati_User
  
  Nope, they just got dressed up in thousand $ suits.
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Anonymous

It’s an endless battle. Owners of Copyright and Intellectual Property will do everything in their power to continue profiting from their creations, for as long as possible — be it by hook or crook.

What we need to ensure is that governments are not corrupted to skew laws in favor of those Copyright and IP owners. They deserve to make a reasonable and fair profit, but not beyond that.
- Violated0
  
  The laws have been skewed for far too long. While politicians do often see that this is a monopoly situation, and a balance needs to be struck against public rights, but they do like to see them as protectors of copyright and not the abusive exploiters of everyone.
  
  So this leads to situations like Joel Tenenbaum who has recently lost his appeal against his $675,000 court imposed fine for sharing 31 songs he downloaded, for the enjoyment of others, without any money involved. Clearly the law does not match the crime meaning that this law has been wrote incorrectly but then who exactly is going to get off their sofa shaped butt to fix it?
  
  The RIAA are of course not going to fix it even if the companies behind them now well recognize that the music supply of your average citizen contain a mix of lawful and infringing music where they now prefer to guide them. So there are not many people around here who have not done what Joel Tenenbaum has been fined $675,000 for. He is not wanting donations.
  
  Then what is most ironic is that the RIAA monopoly has been broken where the independent music world leads on to a free and fair market. But which minor political lobbying organization still wants to write the laws that govern this market? Clearly the two side have different views on how to manage the current market.
  
  I will finish on if you want to change the world then you certainly have to do that yourself. You sure can’t trust anyone else to do the right thing there. We certainly do need to get better mobilized and to change the laws now or we will have to wait until our children ascend to positions of power and well remember the battle that we now fight.
  
  Yes we will certainly win this one in the end which is why so many of the former gatekeepers are running scared.
- Satan
  
  this is why every us movie threatre chain but one is losing money , and the on e that did had 5000 theatres and made only 47 million….
  
  they are losing rick doesn’t know his ass from his dick
  - Guest
    
    Just think of all the people who downloaded CAMs of Dark Knight Rises who are still alive today. Thing is, I bet if some employee saw Jimbo the Joker walking through the parking lot with a Handycam instead of an AK-47 he would have been tackled right away. Priorities…?
Nina Paley

40 years of wandering in the desert, while the worst of the stiff-necked people die out. At least it gives some modern relevance to a popular ancient myth.

Meanwhile, enjoy the manna.
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Anyone

if we get money out of politics they can shout “I have rights, I have rights” all they want, it won’t pervert the law or turn politicians against their people
- Guest
  
  THIS.
- Geronimo
  
  Yes they are right. They have a right, the right to die.
http://tgib.co.uk/ Vanish

You sound rather pessimistic, Rick. What happened?

To be honest, right now we’ve got slightly more pressing problems as the earth’s climate is going to hell in a handbasked, so maybe it’s a good thing people started campaigning for the environment 40 years ago already. But right after we sort that out, civil liberties will be next, and I think my generation (the now 30-40 year olds) is strong enough to topple some obsolete old white men. We’re smart, we’re significant, and – most importantly – we’ve got technology on our side.
- http://falkvinge.net/ Rick Falkvinge
  
  I’m not pessimistic. I never was. I’m merely trying to assess the situation. We can and will win this, but we need to know what we’re up against and the resources it will take to win.
- http://falkvinge.net/ Rick Falkvinge
  
  Also, adding to the previous comment:
  
  Just because we’ve managed to change the laws in 10 or 20 or so years, defending civil liberties in favor of the copyright monopoly, that doesn’t mean the debate will have ended, as long as the fundamentalists are still defending their obsolete viewpoint.
  - ANo
    
    Is there a video of this debate ?
    
    I would like to see it.
- http://profiles.google.com/chris2fm chris moran
  
  How do you know they’re white?
  - McCheezits
    
    Because old white males know what’s best, according to old white males.
    
    And now you know why Congress is filled with white-haired old guys.
    - Jfdjfjkdjkf
      
      And old white females know what’s best according to old white females. That’s how feminism got started, genius.
    - Coat
      
      And what would you call Hillary Rosen then, you drooling fucking moron?
- Toby
  
  While I believe you are correct, the world is full of huge problems right now including but not limited to those you mentioned. However in the case of civil liberties (which seems fairly high on your list of priorities) I would argue many of the copyright issues in the world right now are becoming more entangled with issues of civil liberties. Consider recently how many ISPs in different countries have been forced to censor websites by court orders pushed by the media industry, the utter mess of the dotcom case, FACT prosecuting a criminal case against Anton Vickerman not the crown… this is your civil liberties and the legal structure that supports them being crushed by media companies in the name of copyright.
- Jffjdfjdjfjf
  
  It’s not just white men is it, you fucking man-hater. Is Hillary Rosen a man?
Ender Wiggin

We’ve been waiting for the bastards to die off so we can get pot legalized for 50 years now. Don’t hold your breath, as long as there’s money to be squeezed out of keeping the monopoly, or persecuting file sharer’s nothings gonna change easily.
- puddipuddi
  
  Excellent point, excellent fucking point.
- iwantyourmoney
  
  yea the good ol’ pot – it would be extremely beneficial to the people if legalized, yet there are a lot of parties that won’t agree; the ironic thing is the neither law enforcement nor the drug cartels would like to see it legalized, since the former can justify asking money from tax payers for a BS war on drugs and the latter…well, they’d be outta business if it were legal…and don’t get started on the pharmaceutical companies; it’d be a disaster if you started to grow your own medicine in your backyard…what a friggin conundrum, yet, everything’s about money…following the news a bit more frequently than usual i’m curious: is there a country that’s more greedy than the US?
  
  as for the actual topic, corporate copyright; why would we agree to obey to these old obsolete men with one foot in the grave? We have several ways we can deal with this problem: sharing files, sharing files and sharing files in spite of them jerking off in their conference rooms about some crisis on copyright, and second, slowly infiltrate their system with younger folks actually understanding the change that’s happening. The latter will take years as Falkevinge points out, yet the former is around since…before napster?
  
  yea the good ol’ copyright – it would be extremely beneficial to people if…
  - Guest
    
    OT: Big Pharma. That’s probably the biggest LEGAL drug cartel running amok in society right now. 30 years ago there was no such thing as AD(H)D. They created a “disease” to fit a drug they had no $$$ niche for. Result: probably Newtown/Aurora.
    
    Yet no talk of reevaluating the level at which we overmedicate these kids from the Obozo admin — just gun control and MORE monitoring of private citizens.
- Satan
  
  you been waiting and htey had 50 years to gather resources and that model doenst go poof over night BUT IT IS happening
  movie theatres are the perfect sign
  
  NOW keep up not buying there dvdrs and what not we can starve them out of it….might take another ten years…
  
  just look at the first casualty SCI FI….its gone completely cause they cant afford to do it…..
  
  then you get guys like myself and others that do animated sci fi for free with a donation box to keep us going when we actually do something…
  
  by time hollystupid realizes it , its over…..
http://twitter.com/OrwellUpgraded Orwell Upgraded

One thing that is not being addressed in these debates is why is copyright and the entire intellectual property concept so damn attractive and fantastic propaganda. It is clearly very effective.

Propaganda only works well when it fits well a niche of human conceit.

What is it about IP that makes it so sticky then to the human psyche?

I think there is a memetic quality to it, that much like religion makes it very difficult to eradicate completely as it reproduces quickly like a mind virus. I think it will always resurface and tend towards maximum for this reason.

I used to think it was all because of cynical monopoly powers and money, but in my investigations I also find so many people who think copyright is great who you wouldn’t expect and its not even about money for them. Often these are even the same people would infringe another’s copyright without a thought.

One example would be a fellow film maker friend who thought it makes sense for me to believe copyright is stupid because in his reply about me said “I don’t make anything original” (he doesn’t like documentary, I am making documentary and he simply doesn’t consider factual information something original like fictional stories).

The massive irony in this is that he is shooting a remake of a public domain story, yet thinks that makes him highly original and worthy of copyright protection. He is a nice guy and has also helped me for free when shooting my documentary part of which involves questioning copyright issues (its on censorship of which copyright is a driver)!

You see, I think there is a bug in human nature that means intellectual property will never go away. I even venture to suggest what the irrational appeal is.

It appeals to the worst side of creative ego and a desire for controlling the uncontrollable. Creatives also overestimate their originality by eliminating a lot of context.

Copyright is essentially granting an unreasonable privilege to someone or an organisation, by offering them state backed power that can be used against others they might fear compete in ideas. It is effective because it appeals to desire for power.

So copyright/IP basically asks of people “Would you like unreasonable power to impinge on others rights to learn and copy?” and strangely enough a lot of people suddenly say “Yes! give me that unreasonable power, I want some”.

It won’t die when these people die in 40 years, because it will spread before they are gone. Young ones will want these powers. They will be seduced.

Until we start treating intellectual property like a mind virus, address the psychological needs it serves, we will simply not get rid of it. It is something that grows from the seed that is the offer of unreasonable inequality and power.

Power corrupts. Just looks at videos of say Jobs 15 years ago (happy to copy/steal), vs need the end (vicious in attack of copying).

There is no chance for copyright reform. As long as it exists, it will grow. It will creep. It will spread.

You now get sports people saying, “Hey those guys have unreasonable power, I want some”, so the call for patenting sports move starts. There are even suggestions that now we have brains scanning technology, we could patent though processes!

It will go ever upwards until we deal with the psychological appeal.

Intellectual property is the lure of the dark side

John.
- Satan
  
  1stly there aren’t that many people that love copyright its a massively small number with the buckets a load a cash and lawyers that are lobbying like mad to keep control of things well enough that small timers cant get far enough a head to be a corporate financial threat….
  
  and every single thing ever created almost 99.9% is based in part some way on previous technology or creations…you would not have for example music of today without anyone form the far past as things evolve….this is what were facing is a information explosion that could have been wonderful and as yet may be….
  
  roddenberry’s TNG talks about how artists create simple for the sake of it not for profit….and with replicators your needs are nulled ( now think that as of last year they ‘transported’ using quantum entanglement 200 atoms well its a start..
  
  WHAT are you all going to do when we have true replicators that can replicate anything….are food growers gonna want food rights? tool makers TOOL rights and so on…the fact is when you apply copyright to any other industry it fast becomes ridiculously expensive and would prohibit any one doing anything without everyone having wheel barrels a cash trading it around like the wind…..thus devaluing money in a hyperinflation way.
  
  OH and my understanding is if yu take a public domain work and add to it you are in fact creating a new work and that is in fact how it works…only issues i have are in this day and age term rates , labels behaviour , game makers and there DRM adn music labels behaviour…..
  
  if people realized that ever dollar sucked away form a work over ten years is more cash some other business in your local economy is not getting and showing how bad it is , then you might have seen things change ….the thing is the usa has gone so far over board that i suspect until the nation rebels form other issues it won’t change cause the 1%ers are the ones driving it …..
  - http://twitter.com/OrwellUpgraded Orwell Upgraded
    
    One thing I have noticed about the appeal of Copyright/IP is that for many it is not really about the money. It is about control. Virtually none of the cases where infringement is being fought, is anyone saying “OK, you carry on, but I want a cut”. Think of napster, TV shack and all the rest, and how much money the copyright cartel would have made if simply gone legit and taken a cut.
    
    So, no it is not about money, it is always about ridding the world of methods that aren’t ones instigated by the holder. They find it offensive that other people may want to do things a different way and they are willing to lose money to win the fight over control.
    
    In addition to the big cases, I have been questioning smaller artists who support copyright because I think we need to understand the appeal if we are to ever convince anyone copyright is stupid and unnecessary. Again, even if you show them evidence that suggests they may make more money without stopping piracy, they still prefer control over the money.
    
    Take a look at creative commons for example, even though many artists have taken that up believing it is a nice concept, they still almost always choose a number of restrictions such an no derivatives and non commercial, more so than say in the open source software movement. In fact, the open source software movement could not have taken off at all if you add those restrictions. After all there are no improvements without derivatives and no economy for it without commercial.
    
    That is very hard to explain to artists as it is this control aspect that seems to most appeal to creative egos, they are often unconcerned about making more money. We need to address that or we will fail in our arguments against copyright.
    - jeffer
      
      The key is the basic control ego of the artist, like you say. It is like the poverty nobility in Poland in the 18th century. Some were poorer than the serfs, but still they were fanatical about their nobility privilege.
      
      Prior to the French revolution many of the most fanatical supporters of “ancien regime” and aristocratic privileges were noblemen with lowest income. That, however, could not stop the revolution since other people were simply fed up with the system.
      
      Even if it would be nice if the mass of artists would go for freedom, it is not necessary if the rest of humanity decides that some peoples copyright control is everybody elses loss of freedom. Then copyright control will change or be destroyed.
      
      So – it is a struggle for power. Other peoples power is our loss of freedom. Therefore we must take the power away from them. But that is not new. There are lots of historical inspirations we can learn from:
      
      The Dutch uprising against Spain in the 16 th century.
      The English civil war under Cromwell and the New Model Army 17th century.
      The Glorious revolution in England 1688
      The American and French Revolutions
      The Irish uprising in 1916 and 1919. etc
    - Satan
      
      exactly this copyright we have now is actually a form of cultural censorship and yes control , they dont want us to be free ….perhaps we ought to be saying do you want to be a slave to copyright and patents….look at the paten mess in the usa.
      
      As they say the last breathe of a corporation that cant innovate is to sue…..
- jeffer
  
  Brilliant analysis!
  
  Archetypical power drives are key to understand the propaganda strength of the copyright hegemony.
  
  It is somewhat similar to religious truth claims. They are presented as theology, but are really more about power, where monopoly over the truth claim is the key.
  
  Exampel the catholic church vs protestants
  
  Historically the punishment for going against the Catholic truth claim was ultimately death by slow fire. Because the martyrs for alternative truth claims were ready to pay that price we are reasonably free today. But the grab for power will never stop, so we must continue to challenge every truth hegemony as they present themselves. Today the enemy is not the Catholic hegemony of the 16th century, but the intellectual property regime.
  - Satan
    
    did you know in a few years there will be more protestants then catholics…..cause we can have a better time in our faith……lol
    - Guest
      
      Actually, surveys have shown that fewer and fewer people belong to an organized religion or church. They may be “spiritual” or believe in certain principles, but they don’t really identify with 100% of a certain religious dogma. Ex: people who self-identify as “Christian” but don’t accept the notion of Christ’s divinity, or any “divinity,” just live by His principles (which really are universal when you think about it — generosity being something those copyright Roman tax agents could learn from). ;-)
- me
  
  ”You see, I think there is a bug in human nature that means intellectual property will never go away.”
  
  I disagree. So called “intellectual property” is merely a meme that sprung into existence in the Middle Ages, and managed to survive up to this day. Humans existed long before that, and if it were in their human nature, we would have been plagued by “intellectual property” for a lot more time that merely 300 to 400 years of Human History.
  - Satan
    
    look up darkages and catholic church how it in affect did FORCE a kind of control that stopped science dead.
    
    imagine if you will they didnt do that , we’d be 1000 years in the future and prolly zipping across the stars for sure.
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Anon4fun

>>People who think they have the moral right to control what other people discuss, transmit, use, and copy simply are not going to abandon that point of view. They will assert that right as superior to any civil liberty, forever.<<

Wait, what? No one is asserting that copyright is superior to ANY civil liberty.

What some are asserting is that the right to control what one creates is superior to someone else's right to steal (or pirate, a synonym for steal) it, thus measurably reducing the market value available to a work's creator for their investment of time, labor, and money.

That's what pirates do. We steal. Admit what you're doing and cut the contortionary moralizing bullshit.
- Gupta
  
  Fuck off Grandma.
  - Florian
    
    n reply to Anon4fun: “We steal.” Of course you do corporate paid troll.
    
    Your boss steal the money from the artists and the public. They pay you with the money they stole.
    
    That make you a thief too.
- http://twitter.com/OrwellUpgraded Orwell Upgraded
  
  Actually copyright works by annulling other rights. It is not a right, it is a privilege granted that makes your right to do with your property what you want lessened. Check the history books.
  
  Intellectual property is not property. It is a legal invention.
  
  Property possessiveness of the physical exists in the animal kingdom. Idea possessiveness does not except for secrecy.
  
  Ever noticed the difference in emotional reaction between when a child copies a song made up the another child, vs when they try to take away a physical toy?
  
  Usually the child who has been copied is flattered by the copying. Very different to stealing a toy!
  
  That is why it is so hard to ‘educate’ people into believing in others intellectual property. People only take themselves seriously. People who work in Hollywood for instance download tons of music. They don’t see it as a problem then.
- Anyone
  
  you cannot enforce the copyright monopoly without breaking fundamental civil liberties, it simply cannot be done
  
  and you might be stealing, I however am not
  I simply share what I love with other people
- Guest
  
  If you don’t want your ideas or art shared, don’t share them.
  - http://twitter.com/OrwellUpgraded Orwell Upgraded
    
    Yes. That seems to be the biological basis in the animal kingdom.
    
    Possessiveness appears only for physical property and also for knowledge as secret.
    
    The evolutionary basis seems to be that information revealing is not rewarded in physical terms, but rather by other benefits intangible benefits such as respect, status etc.
    
    Hence a child reacts very differently to have its song copied, than to having its toy taken away.
    
    There is a massive inconsistency between a copyright holder freaking when it’s their own work, and how they treat others work. This is because the copyright holder emotion is related to loss of control, when simultaneously they don’t instinctively apply that to others work. If this privilege of control didn’t exist, they would have no loss to react to. It would just be par for the course.
    
    You cannot reform copyright as long as it offers control and power to the holder. It is too tempting and they will react emotionally on the basis of expecting control.
    - jeffer
      
      Exactly – control must be denied. But they will resist fanatically.
      
      So we must escalate – maybe the Kopimist religion? Make the moderate copyright protestantism Calvinistic…
- Violated0
  
  “What some are asserting is that the right to control what one creates is superior to someone else’s right to steal”
  
  What many are asserting here is that the right to control what one creates does not give you the right to also control the market. The public control the market and you just try to sell to it.
- me
  
  “That’s what pirates do. We steal. Admit what you’re doing and cut the contortionary moralizing bullshit.”
  
  Wrong! We don’t steal, we replicate and copy content. If we stole it, it wouldn’t be available to you anymore. Please stop spreading this bullshit of “copyright infringement = stealing.” It’s not. It’s an entirely different kind of beast.
  - Satan
    
    ya im a trekkie and i replicate with my replicator…..
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- Cyke1
  
  home copyright groups signed up on ur site now that you posted on here and offering open registration?
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    - McCheezits
      
      Hey @f94986d09b739f9042820e8e6b90ef9a:disqus , I tried to find some fucks to give about your now-flagged link, but I got this result:
      
      404 – Fucks not found
http://cheapassfiction.com/ Aelius Blythe

“Almost all the world’s new creators are already working in the new paradigm . . .”

I hope this is true. Sadly the latest displays among creators in the. . . um, literary (using that world lightly) world seem to display a large group of relatively new and independent creators who parked their business/social/ethical paradigm somewhere back in the 1980s.

(I recently saw a writer suggesting a Netflix-like service for books where you could ONLY read them online. Everyone thought this was a fantastic idea. *facepalm*)

Part of me fears, with more and more people becoming creators (which is great!), we may be facing a flood of entitled self-anointed creators stomping into the debates with little regard for the last decade(s!) of progress and debate.

(And, yes, I see the irony in calling creators “entitled,” as that’s usually the special slur reserved for pirates. But it’s hard for me to see copying as even remotely as entitled as asserting control over EVERY manifestation by ANY person of an idea or piece of art.)
- http://twitter.com/OrwellUpgraded Orwell Upgraded
  
  I have been investigating attitudes to copyright in various creative fields and come across your wonderful attempts to reason with authors on forums and seen some of the weird reactions.
  
  Intellectual property is a mind virus. It works by offering unreasonable control of the uncontrollable to boost creative egos, taps into people desire for power. The very same people of course wouldn’t feel the same way about others.
  
  Copyright is genius in the way it suckers a variety of cognitive biases we have as creative people.
  
  Read my longer post.
  - Satan
    
    if they wanted to stop piracy stop making blurays and dvdrs
    force people to theatres
    - Violated0
      
      DVDs and Blurays are their number one best source of income meaning they would bulldoze every movie theatre long before that day happened.
      
      This is not forget that no DVD or Blurays won’t stop Cam and Telesync copies and since the whole point here is “distribution” then there would still be physical copies in other forms awaiting rip and encode.
      
      So they will file that recommendation under “extremely bad idea”
    - Satan
      
      then they need to shut up. quit whining and go forward…..
- Satan
  
  actually with more people being creators its going ot drive the cost of much stuff to near zero and ill bet those that use a donate to me if you like model will end up making the most and as they create cause they like too vs for profit it will begin to show as tools to aid in creation continue to get better…
  
  Apple has done as well as its ever gonna do , its all down hill from here…….same with microsoft
- Guest
  
  I remember when VCRs were considered weapons of mass destruction. Video killed the copyright star.
ken147

Hold on, let me get my bullshit umbrella.
Gear Mentation

As an aside, note that people are living longer and longer… and in 50 years they may not be dying at all anymore. Might not be utopia. And I really think everything depends on just one factor: can we create a truly anonymous file sharing system? If we can, then it will not matter much what the fogies argue. If we can’t then we are always in danger of being strangled, as law enforcement gets more and more tech savvy and is able to trace piracy.
- Anyone
  
  or simply have proper privacy laws, so torrent swarms cannot be spied on
  - Gear Mentation
    
    Now THAT will be the day…. after these people are buried.
    - Anyone
      
      it’s like that currently in Switzerland and Norway
- Satan
  
  and they star trek like transported 200 atoms last year and only 1 the year before….wait till the replicator gets here…then copyright and counterfeit ios over everyone can do as they please….
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Satan

didnt even read everything the fact is they are in fact going broke its just awful darn slow to what many wish due to fact they HID and hide massive amounts to fall back on and keep screwing shit up…10 years form now they will be so close to collapse i doubt the 15000 movie theatres will exist….at least not that many….
yeah me

so you think 250 mil people is enough power to break the system neega pleaz..look at the chinese or indians -3 billion noobs
MonkeysayMonkeydo

Well as long as there money and power there will always be followers and lackey of the preachers and eventually some themselves will be the preachers of the new generations (they do not care if they know it wrong they only care about their profits and power gain)The Gatekeepers of today might one day disappear but make no mistake they will be replaced by new Gatekeepers (looking at Google, Facebook and others of the gender)So this a neverending battle that will always exist as long as there aren’t laws that clearly specify rights and liberties and politicians that truly follow those same laws But there is hope for the future because like today many will fight these injustices and absurdities and maybe just maybe if by a remarkable chance Human Kind evolves to a better self those matters will become trivial
ThumbsUpThumbsDown

If merely enduring the known Political, Economic, and Social distortions from the entrenchment of Corporate Monopolies in Copyright were the problem, we might have space to feel optimistic; if not for ourselves, at least for our children.

A fourty year wait for Moral and Political sanity is tough on our patience as Individuals;but, not if we think in terms of real Human benefits for future Generations.

Yet, today we can not afford the sheer ill conceived and self destructive short sightedness of such optimism.

Consider:  That Perpetual Custody and Control of Intellectual Property in Monopoly Corporations, with effectively complete extinguishment of Public Domain under Copyright Law, is merely one of the most obvious; and, not necessarily the most immediately menacing, example of the quickly accelerating dominance of ALL Social Institutions by Corporate Monopolies. I understand that we are Shocked and Awed by the anti-democratic effects of Legacy Corporate Monopolies working to preserve previledges under Copyright Law, but we are confronting those same anti-democratic repressions in each and every Social, Economic, and Political sector of the Western Democracies.

Are those threats fundamentally different in Banking, Insurance, Tellecommunications, Journalism, Publishing, Law, Pharmaceuticals, Campaign Finance, Education, Health Care, National Defense, and Foreign Intelligence Infrastructure?

What would make us think, in the face of this increasingly dominant expression of Corporate Power in ALL aspects of our lives, that our Children and Grandchildren will be benefited in any way by the mere passage of time?

Suggestion: Our Problems with Monopoly Corporate Power can NOT be coherently explained; and, can NOT be effectively adressed, in terms of Individual corruption. That Cause lies in INSTITUTIONAL corruption; and, that is fundamentally different, and of a different order, than the corruption of distinct Individuals. Why? Because a corrupt Individual is merely one Individual whose corruption might or might not be relevant within an Institution; but, a Corrupt Institution represents the accrued power and perspectives of a multitude of Individuals whose contributions have served to amplify its moral menace over time; and, because any mere Individual interacting with the Institution must defer his/her personal priorities in order to be paid a salary, receive a product, or act or speak on behalf of the Institution. In this context, it makes no sense to explain bad policy as individual or personal choice. There is no optimism to be discovered there. We can wait for future leaders; but, the institution will seek to impose its interests as before.

The solution to Institutional Corruption lies in Radical Institutional change.

We must ask WHY the American and European Democracies produce such overabundance of Corporate Monopolies.

We MUST ask HOW these Monopolies have come to dominate so many important aspects of our lives.

As we answer these two questions, we will find ourselves returning to one of the most tragic human errors ever to leave its mark on Human Life: The Legislative granting of Corporate Personhood, bestowing on Corporations the Legal Standing to Appear before the Law with all the rights of People for the protection of their “interests” and the creation of new law.

Little wonder that those “interests” are so powerfully protected at the expense of the interests of people.

Corporate Personhood alone explains why Copyright Law is a Perpetuity.

It explains also how the United States Supreme Court could find unlimited campaign contributions by Corporations perfectly compatible with democratic electoral Process; and explains also how an American Federal Judge could find violation of “corporate free speech rights” in administratively required graphics depicting the real and deadly risks from smoking.

Corporate Personhood certainly explains how the nullifications of Constitutional Rights contained in PIPA, SOPA, ACTA, CISPA, and TPP came to be born in the Americam Legislature; and, but for the alert outrage of the American People would have been passed in the dead of night; and, would today be the Law of the Land.

What then?

What Next?

A Constitutional Plebescite is possible and necessary to redefine Corporate Personhood to once and for all declare Corporations Property rather than People; and, to banish them officially from the democratic legislatures in the making of NEW law; and to restrict their legal sanding exclusively to Administrative and Judicial Forums for protection of their interests ONLY under EXISTING law.

THAT change would in fact address the Institutional Corruption at the heart of our democratic problems. True, these goals are difficult to explain; and the political leader expousing them must look over a horizon that appears eternal.

But, make no mistake, THAT is the kind of Radical Institutional Change that will secure for our Children and Grandchildren a quality of life worth waiting for.
- YUNOproperty
  
  Love that comment even more than the posted article.
http://www.born2model3d.com/ Aditya

The difference that I find in the last few decades and the present is the lack of patience, which I believe is great. Internet wasn’t as wildly spread in the days of Napster as it is today. Even though the Napster news was a pretty big deal those days it is still not that well know, where as if nowadays a well reputed site goes down its know to one and all. Also due to the nature of the ever growing internet even artists have come forward and defended the people’s rights. I d agree that the concept of copyright won’t go away until these close minded idiots die, but I also believe that in less then 5 – 10 years the free community would have grown exponentially and the need to buy licensed or protect content will be fairly less or even extinct. If you are a regular consumer of free media you would know what I am talking about. take ccMixter for example, that site has some of the most amazing songs and all of which are free and most of which are free to use even for commercial purposes.
Terry

Rick,

The title of the article made me laugh.

It says it all and unfortunately I have to say I agree.

I don’t think they really want to change. They want to continually use the argument to leverage sympathy from politicians for the creation of more and more heinous laws. There is a sinister agenda behind the denial of freedom and privacy. I don’t know if the movie studios/record labels/publishers are aware of this agenda or not. Maybe some are.
pong

40 years? Don’t people normally retire before they’re 60? That would mean everyone holding these viewpoints is in their 20′s but most of them are at least 30-40. Meaning in 40 years they would be 70-80. They wouldn’t still be working, so how are they making a difference anymore?
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  Lawmakers and corporate heads have a nasty habit of working until they die in their positions at the age of 90, excepting if they are kicked out of office/position for some reason first.
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cr0ft

Our entire society is stuck in an old, outmoded way of organizing, based on money, profit and essentially a combat basis of doing everything. In a high-tech world where we can automate like never before, that makes less and less sense. Copyright and patents are both outgrowths of that sick system, both designed to make sure money changes hands and nothing else. Copyright discussions are interesting, but they pale by comparison to the fact that we’re destroying the planet and about to overpopulate it to the point where we start seeing mass human die-off due to starvation and massive changes to the biosphere… and we could fix just about all our issues including copyright by changing from a combat-basis to a cooperation-basis as a species. How? See http://www.thevenusproject.com for instance – a resource-based economy is the sanest approach I’ve seen yet.
http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

Here’s a way to reduce the 40-year sentence imposed upon us of more CopyWrong bullshit as predicted by Rick F – all we need do is start to support our local Pirate Party. And it’s really as simple as that folks.

Even if your support is only to vote Pirate Party at EACH and EVERY election in which they’re standing, that alone would be sufficient to force a change in political consciousness by the other more ‘mainstream’ parties who keep supporting these awful corporations with anti-social CopyWrong laws.

Once the main parties see WHY they’re losing support, they’ll quickly adapt by adopting new policies to attract voters back to them – and that means destroying current CopyWrong laws. They will need to pass new laws protecting our RIGHT to SHARE freely and without restriction.

So go vote, join and campaign for your local Pirate Party – or even stand as a local candidate for election. But simply voting PP will help a great deal if that’s all you’re willing or capable of doing, OK?
- RobIsRight
  
  Spot on.
- http://twitter.com/OrwellUpgraded Orwell Upgraded
  
  That is true for countries that use proportional representation system. It is a big problem still though for countries that use first past the post system such as UK and US.
  
  FPP acts as a massive artificial barrier to entry for new parties. Its a catch 22 because the main parties that benefit from FPP have no incentive to reform the electoral system, as they can only lose support from it.
  
  The maths problem with FPP explained
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
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Jimbo

what a shame that the ‘ “we have rights, we have rights” panelist’ is totally ignoring the fact that everyone else has rights too and sooner or later the rights of the many will overpower the rights of the few (that think they are entitled above all others).

what a shame also that no one in the halls of power seem to be able to grasp this fact and strike a sensible balance, always preferring to go down the ‘fuck you lot, we have to protect the few first and for as long as possible’ route. basically, whilst politicians can be bought, there will be no changes made. cut off all ‘campaign contributions’ and ‘party donations from companies’, force all politicians to reveal all of their income from every source, under threat of a minimum prison term of 5 years (no time off for ‘good behaviour’!) for failing to do so and maybe, just maybe, we can make some progress!
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  With all due respect, the rights of the few should NEVER be abrogated by the majority. That leads to fascism and Nazi Germany.
  
  No, what we should do is tell these people “You do not have a right, you have a privilege. The Privilege to sell your items in public and, if they are good, get a reasonable profit from them WITHOUT expecting people to pay for the same thing multiple times.”
http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Dilly/1624894683 Don Dilly

In a nutshell, the only way to win the copyright wars is for the ever increasing alienated masses not to buy their products.

We need new models, increasingly musicians are using their recordings rather than as a major income stream but to promote their live concerts and to generate interest in them as artists.

Insterestingly if the artist is a RIAA slave worker, the problem the artist currently has is that the RIAA members see things the other way round with concerts promoting the artist’s recordings (the rights to which are owned by the label).

The label then has the nerve to fund both the recordings and concerts along with any advance to the artist (to eat) out of the artists paultry share of royalties and ticket sales. The whole system is rigged such that many artists (unless they write their own material) rarely see a penny other than the initial advance agreed by the label.

As labels think more artists are two a penny, the artist is often dropped when the contract expires. The label often made millions yet due to sly accounting and dodgy contracts the artist is still notionally in debt to the label. The label still owns the recordings and will still receive profits from them thru compilation albums, advertists and airplay with the artist rarely seeing another penny.

In this day and age, what do the labels really offer the artist ???/ NOTHING. Music download sites (pay or illegal) are independent of the labels. The artist already pays for studio time and if the artist cant financially put on sizeable concerts if they take off, there are plenty of independent promoters who could.

Artists such as coldplay have proven that free/pay what you want downloads do not impact CD sales. Prince gave away his (then) latest album as a free nespaper covermount to promote a week of UK concerts. Coldpay’s album still went to No1 and Prince (nowherenear aspopular in UK) had a sell out dates, I think he actually added dates due to demand.

The way to defeat the RIAA is to get artists to adopt new models, the RIAA never will. It was for the very reason of artists willing to defect to Megabox that resulted in the illegal shutdown and seizure of the Mega sites.. Eventually the RIAA members will just be left with a library of rights to aging recordings of deminishing value to anyone.
- Anon
  
  Don, buddy, you are fighting reality. As long as the recording industry promises and delivers on a pittance, that’s all it takes because it’s still more than piracy will bring. And we know this from watching now for over a dozen years, except for a handful of artists (Pamplamoose comes to mind) and novelty acts, like Coulton. The money is gone almost everywhere else. The artists are watching, too. They want to make music. You want them to do everything it takes to launch and manage a career plus marketing and concert orchestration and everything else PLUS you want them making world class music. You’re not in the real world, that’s what’s wrong with the true Falkvinge piracy mentality. That’s your disconnection to what’s real and your exploitable weakness. When everything is handled by the front office for a fee, and often on a world class stage and profile, the musician can finally make music again. You give them all the work and zero for their music while you brag about buying a shirt and a once-a-year concert ticket. Piracy has long sucked for real, professional musician and you know it.
  - Anon
    
    While you call yourselves “fans.” cute. ;-)
  - Satan
    
    you call the tv we now have delivering for nothing , no your right it is a pittance compared to pre 2001 lawsuits ….instead a focusing on content they have focused on setups and then blackmail and then lawsuits.
    
    there isnt a show on any tv network i care for RIGHT NOW and game a thrones was only ten eps…..wow can i pay for 50 other channels i dont want now?
  - Guest
    
    And you still believe the RIAA will somehow make this all better, don’t you Anon?
    
    How many times do we have to say it – the RIAA has made it clear that it doesn’t give two shits about how much money artists make. If they did the money they make from suing Megaupload and the Pirate Bay, plus broke college students and laser printers would go to artists. Hint, it doesn’t. Never has and never will.
    Money isn’t going to the artists because of the RIAA, and if they have their way, it never will. The goodwill of the people that the RIAA had is constantly being lost thanks to their complete disregard for collateral damage and due process. Oh, and by the way, their funds are getting cut. Have fun supporting their operations; it’ll die out some time. Maybe Pelouzey can rub some industry chocolate on that butthurt of yours!
  - Scary_Devil_Monastery
    
    Oh, right. Which is why “real” musicians seem to quite split about the issue. Strangely enough the vast majority of “professional” musicians who complain are the has-beens who can’t get people to listen to their music even when it’s free.
    
    Rick has far more facts on his side than your erronously formed opinion. That doesn’t mean you aren’t entitled to have such an opinion. Just that it doesn’t carry any weight in a debate.
    - Guest
      
      Major label “artists” aren’t professional “musicians” anyway. They’re models. Major label is Rihanna, Britney and Justin Bieber. And even Beeb the Dweeb got his start singing COPYRIGHTED cover songs on YouTube.
- Satan
  
  we need to teach people how ot make movies and tv and games and apps and do so cause htey like to share
  
  a real opensource for everything…think of the money we all would save and could spend in a local economy….
  
  if your wife and you want a dinner and movie well the govt runs the theatres and puts on shows that are popular buy the download index….then adds maybe some local talent per city/town….and all downloads would have a donate button where X goes direct to a creator , and Y goes to site ops and govt taxes……
  
  this way everyone wins.
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Rusty Shackelford

Patents are becoming one of the more recent problems, as seen by the Apple and Samsung litigation.
Neotoasty

Action needs to be made. No longer by words. We’ve done all we can by words and nothing has gone through. Maybe a bat to the knee-cap ought to change their minds a tad.
- Satan
  
  this i agree , ricks way you might never ever see the end of it all…..
Matt500845

The Singularity is Near. We are all human here. It’s not fair for the weathy few at this particular time in history to take the reigns of the cumulative human experience to which we all play a part in our sheer existance (as you trace your family tree back your ancestors multiply exponentially until we share them all and hance are equally entitled). similarly, it’s not fair for the masses to be born into subjegation. Things are actually going pretty well check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJW78HoNnX0&feature=bf_next&list=UU1zny_jKmgnEbQitfPgAlxg (charts/facts regarding ethnic issues, weath distribution, ecology, and economic disparity start around 5 min 30 sec–all trends in good directions since around industrialization). We tend to take for granted all of our existing liberties. Knowledge and compassion will prevail or else we don’t have a future. and it is happening. i find it crucial to espouse an atmosphere of knowledge, compassion, and cultural tolerance during this time. as well as tolerance for our oppressors. we don’t need to create supremely powerful malevolent oppressors we can instead educate them and love them as we all enter enlightenment 2.0
Mandrok

Price discovery is a legitimate process in the market. Piracy exists because the corporates overcharges the customer. Nonviolent piracy is a process or price discovery so a legitimate market agency.
http://twitter.com/cabalamat Philip Hunt

There probably will be another 40 years of copyright bullshit, but we’ll have won long before then.
Guest

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Davidbigharddrive

films are hyped up by there covers now america put tits n boobs or a schoolgirl on it now to make the film more interesting,also dont they relise not many people want to watch or buy american films n albums because of there ileggal wars in syria,iraq and afghanstan??soon iran with some pretext lie made up so they can steal there oil

how would feel if you went to hmv in the u.k spent 10 quid or more and a brilliant dvd or blueray and it was all hype??the trailers and adverts hype it up now if you remember did america bother copyright infringement in the 80s???we used to have sincalir and c64 games copied by tape to tape and videos tapes copied did hollywood moan then nope only when it concerns them if you look at the companies involved in copyright infirngement they are making a profit they think people have to be forced to watch there rubbish tv crime scene rubbish that can be solved in one day where in america theres loads of unsolved murder hollywood dmca get a life no one loves your country due to your wars n bullying try to create jobs and solve real crime insteado f going for easy target dont forget in america you get arrested for jaywalking and feeding birds how petty land of the free my bum

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Michele Hostetler

Rick, you need to stop complaining about this. Copyright protection has been in our constitution since its inception. The founding fathers put it in. I’m pretty sure Jefferson, as a prolific inventor supported it and Washington, as the presiding officer didn’t stop it. And as long as we keep progressing and innovating as a society, copyright law is going to be modified to deal with the new technology that comes along the way. Rather than whine about it, why don’t you join the conversation of how to make the copyright process better.
Trelew

The biggest mistake as a species, as a society, has made was to give corporations the same rights and freedoms as an individual. I think that combined with government’s work culture of no transparency and no accountability will be the downfall of a healthy society.
Guest

Sad to say, but this is unfortunately the truth. And it could be LONGER if these a-holes “educate” (read: indoctrinate) their privileged offspring to fight for the same cause on account of tradition. See for example the millennial generation of racists and homophobes, or the seemingly infinite generations of welfare families brought up with an idea that society “owes” them something because of XYZ atrocity against their demographic. Radical Islamists still harbor anger about the Crusades. Radical black activists still harbor anger about the Civil War (as do some radical “Southern Strategy” activists, no doubt).

Meanwhile, almost everyone else has moved on with their lives. The Irish don’t demand reparations from the English for atrocities committed against them. Gay couples will continue to commit to each other in married relationships despite the arguments by religious bodies (most of which have zero credibility on the issue of “responsible sexual behavior” anyway). But I surmise that the children and grandchildren of copyright lobbyists will demand “reparations” from the children and grandchildren of Gottfried Svartholm, Kim Dotcom and Sean Fanning.

I don’t know why stupid politicians don’t focus on important things facing the populace, like jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, and oh, yeah, jobs.

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