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Originally Posted by sortie
Speeding ticket does not mean jail or community service.
Now go ahead and fuck up by not paying the fine or obeying a court order.
In other words, put up content and get sued and have a judge tell you to
take it down and ignore that.
Copyright violation in most states is a civil offense, but give it another 10-20 years.
There will be many studies done on the effects of the internet during this time and
the result will be that piracy crippled too many enterprises.
Those facts may be the cause to make it a criminal offense.
It's already is criminal in some places :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyrig...minal_offences |
We aren't talking about not following court orders... that's illegal even if he tells you to jump out the window.
The copyright laws will change, but not the direction you think... Fair use, "IS" the American Economy and technology/software and digital goods aren't slowing down.
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/ccia-fair-...-exec-summ.pdf
"Revenue - In 2006, fair use industries generated revenue of $4.5 trillion, a 31 percent
increase over 2002 revenue of $3.5 trillion. In percentage terms, the most significant
growth occurred in electronic shopping, audio and video equipment manufacturing,
Internet publishing and broadcasting, Internet service providers and web search portals,
and other information services.
Value Added - Value added equals a firm’s total output minus its purchases of
intermediate inputs and is the best measurement of an industry’s economic contribution
to national GDP. In 2006, fair use-related industry value added was $2.2 trillion, 16.6
percent of total U.S. current dollar GDP.
Fair use industries also grew at a faster pace than the overall economy. From 2002 to
2006, the fair use industries contributed $507 billion to U.S. GDP growth, accounting for
18.3 percent of U.S. current dollar economic growth."
No way Copyright, fair use, or piracy rules are going to change.