What i mean is that if 20,000 + music sharers get letters of so called copyright infringement but there are 10,000 + children p0rn molesters on p2p and not one has ever got a letter from the police or snail mail, or like only 1 or 2 have ever gotten caught. Is this not to assume that riaa aznd mpiaa just don’t care about this kind of stuff….. if the riaa wins totally, and they control everything, i wouldn’t trust them with a child at all, heck maybe if a molester pays them 1,000 dollars to molest the riaa’s children which do they choose the money or the child, (children.). oh and he doesn’t steal their music of course or what they claim as stealing…

Heck it seems like that, and that killers and robbers and those in jail for truly awful bad things have actually obeyed the law to a better extent than those that are not in jail..

It’s like trying to copyright a spoken language. Copyrights and patents should be abolished, they only serve the interests of big business.

At the moment they have to pay for lawsuits, even if its just for their own lawyers and barristers and other court costs.

If copyright infringement was a criminal matter, governments would have to pay all the legal costs involved.

It’s obviously just an attempt to cut their costs regardless of the consequences to anyone other than themselves.

It’s idiots like this, which make me glad as a US citizen, I don’t live there now, and seriously don’t want my children to be faced with people who can’t follow their own rules.

This somehow reminds me of some governments in the past, who with similar rediculous ideas, thought that they could rule the world by completly stripping the citizens of their rights, because the “government leaders know best” (I wont name any names, because there are too many). In fact one such government ended up with these exact leaders fleeing their gold covered mansions, only to be shot, and thrown into an unmarked grave.

As a writer and ex-editor for magazines, I truely apreciate the need to respect the works for others. I have also seen, first hand, what can happen when copyrights are ignored.

And as sad as it is, the US movie industry has also played a major role in the reproduction of foriegn matirial to suit their own needs (Disney is well known for their stealing of other people’s ideas). And to top that off, there are reports that a large number movies release over the net, are from industry insiders.

So it all comes down to this one point-

With it said that the US was built on the premise that it is the land of the free, where do these people get off telling us what we do in a personal, and non-corperate life?

just my two cents…

I mean George Bush the incompentant has bigger problems with the bullshit quagmire war in Iraq the runaway federal budget and bigger headaches with governing than being a prostitute for his pimp masters in the entertainment industryand George bush’s popularity rating of less than 30%.

The democraps are flirting about bringing the the so called “fairness doctrine” back.

The country lives in truly perilous times which is on the brink of all out war in the middle east and terrorism i would think there are more things to trip on than more totally unenforcable bullshit intellectual property laws .

This website does not even live in reality.

This website must be for the most part is for younger people who have nothing better to do than to steal copyrighted material off the internet and then claim they are in the right and they don’t have to pay the entertainment cartels restitution for the property that they stole

isent copyright law designed to compensate holders who have had there “product”/intellectual property stolen. either you end up with a illegal copy of someones work or you do not i cant see a middle ground.

e.g if 10010011(binary) is copyrighted and you atemt to copy this but get 01011001 you have not infringed upon the copyright as you do not end up with a copy.