Discussion of copyright law, for whatever reason, really brings out the barbarian within. I wonder why, say, laws against stealing other people’s houses don’t occasion as many cries of “fascism.”
The record industry didn’t do anything to solve the case when someone broke into my brother’s home and stole his music collection.
It’s still stolen music that someone is listening to for free.
We all want legal protection (or at least prosecution of the criminals when we are wronged). The RIAA thinks they get to be first in line just because Obama has stacked the Injustice Department with RIAA lawyers.
Perhaps because some of us think that it is obscene that just because some guy writes a song or a book, that he, his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren don't necessesarily have sole right to distribute that work. The Beatles catalog hasn't reverted to the public domain after 30 to 40 years, and probably won't during my lifetime because we have the best congress money can buy. This kind of thing breeds comtempt for the law.
I don't begrudge a man for making millions of dollars for a couple of hours of work, but I do think it's immoral for his great children to. It says right there in black and white in the Constitution itself, that copyright was supposed to be for "limited times". These RIAA scumbags are on record stating that the heat death of the universe minus one day should be considered a "limited" time.