On 4/7/2012 1:01 AM, Tim Bray wrote:
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
SOPA's not dead yet, it's only restin'. Plenty of time to pass it or
something even more egregious after the elections is safely past.
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.
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