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join:2003-08-10
038xx | U.S. House A Big Fan of Piracy funny but of course but already known simply by numbers involved and human behavior.
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Same dynamic as the 1980s nationwide drive 55 law: broad support as a good idea: who could argue against being safer? But applied it proved an example of collective brain says one thing, behavior another, brain learns. In law if the masses don't accept something it's bad law. So now it's sharing of published works. Sounds a bad idea to undermine commerce funding of book authors and movie maker but then we do it anyway. And there's zero indication our behavior will change.
It's nuts to think production will go away. Output will change (for the better, I'll speculate) and participants won't make millions per work. Art as commodity never entirely worked anyway which is why civilized societies underwrite art.
The legal battle is firstly about preserving business models, secondly because humans are uncomfortable with foundational change/uncertainty. The latter enables wild corruption & exploit successes of the former.
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