TorrentSpy lawyer battling 'copyright extremism'

TalkBack 11 of 26:: Next »; « Previous

Thread View
Flat View

It's not the tool, it why they use the tool: I think what John is getting at is already people have little or no respect for copyright law. What I've seen is the Babyboomer generation has taught and entire generation that copyrights are fair to ignore. I know I've seen this. It mainly was reaction to the copyright extensions where show that my parents saw as kids got extended and still exist under copyright some 60 or 70 years after. So they taught me copyright law is something that can be broken from time to time. So now my generation who has just now becoming adults have that passed that same sentiment on but the only real difference is that now you can pirate a song in much more harmful manner. In my day you'd buy a record then tape it for friends. First with the old reel to reel recorders using a mic then a cassette recorder an mic. This is semi legal now but it was illegal back then. Now a whole new generation of kids can get a copy of the song at the press of mouse button with out paying for. They can fire a copy of song off CD to friend in seconds.

What we are seeing is the results of 50 years rearing up today and I don't see any easy way to return that. Much in the same way that Pot usage is today a more acceptable thing so is copyright infringment even though both illegal.

All copyright extremism will do is push the ball right over the edge assuming we haven't done that already.

Yes I admit. I'm as guilty as the rest. I too infringe here and there, nothing major. That is the problem. Right there I said, nothing major. I'll burn copy of friends CD, nothing major. Why do I think that way? Heck I write software and have copyright protected material. Yet copyright infringement is nothing major to me. I was raised that way and now kids with the tools they have today, it's a perfect storm. So now I see kids hacking and X-Box to pirate games and Appalled. I'm shocked. Don't these kids get it but then I look at myself, I look at my parents, I look at my grandparents. Each was a little more lax with copyright passed down through the generations and we were pretty conservative when it came to that. I've seen other who gone much farther. No simple laws are going to fix this problem. You need to get the buy in of the people on mass to fix this problem. With all the corporate greed going on that's going to be very difficult thing to pull off.; Posted by: voska Posted on: 08/01/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use