Bush Appoints Anti-Piracy Czar > Collateral

Collateral

Michael Jackson used the Beatles catalog (that he was so instrumental in creating) as collateral for loans. But because of P2P piracy he probably won't be creating any more Beatles music.But seriously ,the copyright system in our country is so messed up we need a Czar to fix it not enforce it.People get sued for trying to preserve out of date unsupported programs and websites.Copyrights are still valid for movies made in the 30s.The whole point of copyright is to provide an incentive for people and companies to produce a product that is beneficial to society.If nothing ever becomes public domain then how is society as a whole benefitting?A constitutional right meant to make more products of "useful arts" available to society has been warped into an everlasting cash cow.When Ghandi marched to the sea to make salt he was stealing from the British government according to the law of the time.Was the sea less salty because of his actions? I think not.While I do not in any way compare the nobility of the cause, I do feel that the analogy better reflects the actual damage than the theft of real property analogy used so often.