But we cant even blame the police… only people we can only blame is OURSELVES for letting people decide our fate behind closed doors and accepting that

The available facts makes it very unclear if file sharing causes profit or loss to the copyright owners when any loss can be offset by increased exposure, fans and resulting sales. Current evidence seems to highlight that file sharing does benefit the majority of copyright owners. The movie industry in Hollywood reports that they have just had the best year ever. Clearly file sharing hurt Avatar and Inception none. The music industry have also reported their best sales since music sales crashed in the 90s. Lady Gaga does not mind people sharing her music when she knows the more fans she has the better her career will be. It should also be clear that file sharing will make good media more popular and bad media less popular. No more need to buy or rent something you ponder if you will enjoy or not. That would make them work harder to make better media.

I am also strongly opposed to the abuse and restrictions that the copyright monopoly gives to the public. Zoning in terms of satellite services would be my main pick. Then general people need to remove Macrovision to copy their Video Cassette collection to DVD or to remove CGMS to copy their DVDs to Bluray.

The central location for copyright you speak of is much like the former requirement that all copyrighted media must come marked copyrighted. They changed from an opt-in system to an opt-out system which changed unmarked media from ok to not ok. So now we both say that it should be changed back to opt-in.

Whatever the solution it should be easy and well known when not all artists have the time, knowledge or resources for piles of paperwork. Simply stating copyrighted is already well known and easy to do.

The main problem with copyright is that they make the money and they use that money to lobby (bribe) politicians to make yet more restrictive copyright laws for their increased profit. Then they dare call this infringement of public rights “modernising copyright laws”

Should you need the opinion of those who believe copyright should not exist then there are plenty here.