Well, even if you were right about the omnipotence of the lobbies, there are now other lobbies. And popular action is not without influence. SOPA failed in Congress. -T
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:17 PM, David Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > I doubt that. People always think that the next generation will make > changes to laws that make sense. > > Politicians need money to get re-elected, and they will vote the way > that their monetary supporters (lobbyists) want them to. As long as > the MPAA and RIAA are powerful lobbies, things won't change. > > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Apr 6, 2012, at 7:47 PM, David Parsons wrote: >> >>> After the case is won. You still have to pay your lawyer up front. >>> Copyright cases are notoriously expensive to fight. >> >> I expect the whole issue of copyright is going to go through a seismic shift >> in the not too far distant future, and that we will largely have the record >> and movie companies to thank for it. Copyright law came about when the >> infrastructure for making copies of a work was relatively expensive, at >> least for the infrastructure, so it was easy to track down who had the >> printing press. The entertainment industry was based on the grossly huge >> profit margins that they could command when people couldn't easily make good >> copies. >> For every dollar they lost to college students who listened to bootleg tapes >> of friends albums that they might have bought, if the tape wasn't available, >> they probably made $20 from those same people buying albums they might not >> have heard of without those tapes, once they graduated and got good jobs. >> >> When cheap digital file sharing came about, rather than looking at how the >> world was changing and seeing what they could do in the long run, they went >> crazy draconian on people trying to scare them into submission, and just >> ended up pissing everyone off. Once someone get it into their head that >> it's not bad to steal music from evil bastards like the music industry, it's >> not a big jump for them to accept the idea of just copying everyone's work. >> >> I think that while the big publishing houses are cranking the screws down >> tighter, and pissing people off, the folks who grew up with file sharing, at >> one point, will have the governmental power, and they'll actually change the >> laws, probably way beyond what most of us would consider fair use. By that >> time, they'll just be codifying what is the cultural norm anyways. >> >> If we're lucky, people may not be quite so cavalier about plagiarism, >> someone claims that your photos are their own. >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > David Parsons Photography > http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com > > Aloha Photographer Photoblog > http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
