 Wolfie00My dog is an elitistPremium
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Re: So much for a smaller government... said by fAcEtIOUs:And it passed so easily because intellectual property is such a huge part of the US economy and an even bigger part of US exports. IP may be a big part of the economy, but the alleged impact of filesharing as claimed by the RIAA and MPAA is bogus. It makes the assumption that every last bit of data out on the filesharing networks is a direct displacement of product revenue -- a CD or a DVD purchase, or a movie ticket. This is just pure fantasy with no relationship to reality. Most of their business problems such as they are arise from obsolete business models, technological advances, and changing demographics.
What I object to about the DMCA and this kind of nonsense is the continuing assault on personal information privacy in order to cater to corporate interests and their lobby groups. The result has been the horror stories of parents being sued for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars because a ten-year-old downloaded a song, or an elderly widow who barely knows how to open a browser window somehow coming under the RIAA's crosshairs as an alleged big-time pirate. Meanwhile, the music and movie industries continue to whine about lost profits because, oddly enough, none of these measures have the least bit of effect since they have little or nothing to do with the root cause. And also meanwhile, other countries, like Canada, move in the opposite direction and, recognizing the threat that modern communications technology poses to privacy rights, have enacted strong personal privacy protection laws.
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