Posted by Frank ess on 12/14/06 02:56

PTravel wrote:
> "J. Clarke" <Jclarke.usenet@cox.net> wrote in message
> news:elorp00tnq@news2.newsguy.com...
>> 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.
>

Seems to me that same USA "demographic" has decided marijuana
possession and use should not be illegal; there may have been some
movement in some parts of the country, an individual can still find
her/himself in legal trouble if s/he's not wary of laws,
circumstances, and consequences.

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Frank ess

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