| Kenny said: For a different way of looking at it: According to two economists at Princeton University, the value of a human life was estimated at $1.54 million seven years ago. Even accounting for inflation, from a purely economic perspective, the entertainment industry quite literally has the right to destroy your life if you are caught pirating. To top it off, even the US Department of Justice says it's fair ! All for the "offense" of downloading the equivalent of one and a half CDs worth of songs... I think it's fair to say that, in the US, the social contract of copyright (time-limited right to profit from the work before it passes into the public domain) has been thoroughly corrupted by media conglomerates. If anyone wonders why nobody respects copyright law anymore, this is why. |
This is a post I have to say that I totally agree with.
The unfortunate nature of politics is that not only do the record companies mess with U.S. copyright law, they also cause the U.S. politicians to pressure other countries to follow the same draconian laws. Personally I have no respect for copyright laws and quite frankly if its older than 15-25 years (depending on the title/popularity) I consider it to be public domain for the purposes of fair personal use.
Tease.
