| HappySqurriel said: Copyright is a legal concept which was originally reasonable, and has been pushed to extreme levels in order protect the flawed business models of (certain) very large businesses. |
At this day and time, intellectual property is the largest area of the growth of profitability, and worth billions, if not trillions of dollars. Corporations, entities that can't die, but can only go broke, end up holding intellectual property rights FOREVER, and try to control how it is used, to maximize profitability. End result is, as time goes on, almost nothing will fall into the public domain, as it used to. If people create stuff for the public domain, then it will stay there, but not fall into it. Exception would be if corporations don't feel it is of value any longer.
In this climate, you see what is happening with the Sony-Anonymous wars, and how you have individuals who are consumers of corporately produced and owned content revolting and getting angry at individuals who want to modify the PS3, and do homebrew stuff. Because such people who hack technology don't march in lock step with what Sony wants, individuals are upset with them. After all, when has Sony really messed with the consumer of their content had anyhow? Werll, the guys who bought a PS3 to run Linux on it have been, but they really don't count.
And this war goes on. Copyright gets crushed under the weight of desire to be used to communicate. And you have a flood of free content on the Internet also. You even had the porn industry wanting a crack down against free amateur porn appearing on the Internet, because they feel it infringed on their ability to do business. The video in the original post shows what is going on.
