People DO view the whole thing as a corporate con game, because it really IS!…

1) Taking a CIVIL INFRINGEMENT, and trying to make everyone believe it’s a CRIMINAL OFFENSE.

2) Using the CIVIL COURT process to avoid the “unfavourable challenges” and onuses the criminal process would demand, while maintaining the “criminal” nature of the charges and penalties they seek.

3) Successfully confusing the legality of FILE SHARING with the separate issue of COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.

4) Getting providers, governments, and schools to become IP ENFORCEMENT AGENTS and FOOT THE BILL as well.

5) Removing any instance of SAFE HARBOUR, whenever it gets in the way of possibly shutting down a major link in the P2P chain.

6) Removing all normal legal rights from the victimized parties to properly defend themselves.

7) Keeping the propaganda flowing 24/7.

1. Nobody jailed, case under appeal which could drag on for years
2. Serious questions regarding judicial conflict of interest.
3. Serious mobilization of the “political wing” of the CopyFight.
4. No meaningful decrease in “piracy” whatsoever.
5. Entire generation soured on the corrent political process, viewing it as a corporate con-game.

yeah, the TPB verdict was a real “win”, there.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/01/AR2009060101283.html

Record low turnout is expected for the June 4-7 elections for the European Parliament, “giving fringe candidates a better chance of winning seats”.

Hollywood’s “successful [Oh, really ?] court action against a notorious file-sharing site in Sweden has propelled a new movement advocating copyright reform to the doorstep of the European Parliament. Once a blip on Sweden’s political map, the Pirate Party has gained followers by the thousands after four men behind The Pirate Bay Web site were given one-year prison terms for helping users break copyright laws [Oh, really ?] . “We tripled our member count in a week,” Pirate Party founder and chairman Rickard Falkvinge said.”"