said by SkyBlue :

This needs to be addressed its gone to far.

said by amigo_boy :

IMO, it will never be addressed unless affects more people (generating more grass-roots activism or civil disobedience). I don't think most people care about the origins of copyright or the balance it was intended to strike between facilitating a market (through social, public law) and recompensing society as the ultimate property owner (through Public Domain).

If the vast majority don't see a value from Public Domain, there will be little political influence (as corporations and special interest groups representing artists lobby for the value they see in the other side of the equation).

I think that's the challenge. How to make the vast disinterested aware of the issues in terms they can understand.

Mark

said by amigo_boy :

IMO, it will never be addressed unless affects more people (generating more grass-roots activism or civil disobedience). I don't think most people care about the origins of copyright or the balance it was intended to strike between facilitating a market (through social, public law) and recompensing society as the ultimate property owner (through Public Domain).

If the vast majority don't see a value from Public Domain, there will be little political influence (as corporations and special interest groups representing artists lobby for the value they see in the other side of the equation).

I think that's the challenge. How to make the vast disinterested aware of the issues in terms they can understand.

Mark

said by SkyBlue :

Good information.

This needs to be addressed its gone to far.

Riaa is going nuts.

Thanks for the top 10 list of torrents.

said by supergirl :

Actually, the MPAA are like the Klingons, about to be out of existence and to technology resistance is futile.

More Stupid RIAA News (all fake but could happen)

-RIAA sues George W. Bush of Crawford, TX for illegally downloading Celine Dion songs to his computer then to his iPod. After the RIAA found out he was the President of the United States and the U.S. AG cited "Executive Privilege", the RIAA dropped the case.

-RIAA sues dying man of cancer in hospital for $100,000 for ripping CDs to a laptop owned by the hospital. "It's not his laptop nor his CDs. Just because he's dying of cancer, THE LAW IS THE LAW!!!" said Ira Schwartz.

-RIAA sues U.S. Soldiers for recording an event at the USO. The soldiers, most missing a limb from Iraq, were stunned at the lawsuit. Dick Cheney took the two RIAA lawyers hunting and they haven't been heard from since.

-RIAA plants "fake" students at Universities to catch Illegal Downloaders. University of Chicago was none too happy and had all 4 "students" arrested for trespassing, violating the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act for using college computers illegally, and one for impersonating a University Police Officer.

-RIAA sues Chinese Citizens for a collective $100 billion. In turn, the Chinese release their entire catalog of music online for anyone to download worldwide except Britney Spears since, as China's President said, "She's a bad role model for kids and so is her sister."

said by SkyBlue :

True very true.

That scenerio Just goes to show you how far RIAA is going to go to terrorize people even on there death bed.

RIAA is not big brother and should be ignored at all costs. As long as your nose is clean they are full of it.