They can legislate all they want, it’s not going to change the way we act, because they ~can’t~ stop us from doing what we want. It didn’t work prior to the french revolution, when people were being killed for infringing on the monopoly, and it won’t work now.

It’s interesting to note that the RCMP, Canada’s police, said in 2007 that they basically do not give a shit about filesharing. They advised they wouldn’t prosecute anyone using or related to demonoid (though they still moved to the ukraine) and that the only copyright infringements they would investigate would be medical or electrical appliances, those standing to actually harm consumers.

So that’s something at least.

But then again, they also ran over some guy camming a film with their car, and camming isn’t even illegal in Canada.

A clothes manufactures sells trousers.

You find a pair you really want and buy them.

They don’t fit you probably so you modify them to fit as the manufacturer only sells them in 2 sizes.

People ask you how you did it, you tell them.

You have a friend with an interview coming up, you let them use them.

The only issue digitial media throughs up is that its possible for more than one person to have the modified media, kind of like there being more than one pair of modified trousers, so what we have to decide as a society is how we handle this new issue.

The copyright guys have made there stance clear, they won’t adapt. What lacking is a proper canvasing of peoples opninions so that society can make an informed decision.