Posted by PTravel on 12/13/06 17:52

"J. Clarke" <Jclarke.usenet@cox.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:45:00 +1300, Colin B wrote:

> We may be at the beginning of a sea-change in perceptions of intellectual
> property with regard to video. If enough of the public decides that they
> want video to be freely copiable then the legislators won't have any
> choice but to tell the MPAA to go pound sand and remove copyright
> protection from such material.

Complete nonsense. First of all, the Constitution reserves exclusive rights
to copyright owners in Article I, Section 8. Second of all, copyright
owners are businesses that pay taxes and, more importantly, pay lobbyists.
Youtube copyright infringers are children and very young adults who don't
work, don't create content and, most likely, don't vote. Just because that
group might like to legalize intellectual property theft doesn't mean that
(1) the majority of Americans would approve, and (2) Congress would be
inclined to amend the Constitution and pass legislation that would enable IP
theft.


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