Actually the inventor of the Internet must have known that the primary use of the Internet was eventually going to be an unstoppable system to copy everything in sight, as soon as any sofware was made available for the internet through a browser. It was very predictable.

Also the the inventor of the browser must have known that the main use of the browser was to locate information that could be infringed. Infringement was really simplified with browser with downloading options.

And let us not forget the creator of the search engine. These had the same purpose as the browsers: To locate material to infringe. They can even locate the the p2p software for the infringer.

Inventiveness is dangerous to society and must be stopped, the copyright cartels are saying.

Actually the Betamax cases evolved arounf the moronic idea that a product that could be used for illegal action could be banished.

Long before the Betamax there were guns, photocopier, knives, cameras, tape recorders, political parties, controlled substances, the legal system, and an infinite number goods and services that could be used both legally and not legally and none had been banished because of it, at least successfully. Even the atomic bomb has not been succesfully banished. No one can ever have that power.

The issue was not resolved with Betamax but when men began to think, in prehistory, that products. goods and services cannot be banished because they can be used for illegal purposes or better worded, for bad purposes.

The fact that the issue is being raised again is really a a damnation of the legal system, one that seems unable to get anything straight. One that, BTW, is frequently used for bad purposes.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

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