intellectual property...
*yawn*
now that we have copyright in perpetuity... i have little respect for this concept.
they will never be able to stomp out file sharing... NEVER... they have been trying to police how geeks string 0's and 1's together for over 20 years now with NO SUCCESS.
better to dump their archaic distribution models.
Exactly. Congress keeps extending copyright ahead of expiration, violating the whole intent of the Constitutional provision. That means all bets are off. The copyright holders brought all this on themselves when they paid off legislators to effectively insulate them from any copyright limits at all.