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all i am saying is if you don't apply a penalty when a scum sucking copyright holder misrepresents fair use as infringement and abuses the laws to take out free speech or hurt innovation.
making those scum bags and only those scum bags give up their copyright forever (and therefore their ability to abuse the law again) is totally fair.
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In event of a disagreement which will occur, the accepted way of dealing with the issue is through the courts. Stare decisis protects both the "fair use" user and the copyright holder.
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so explain if you are perfectly willing to respect fair use, why do you want to protect the scum bag copyright holders who are going to deliberately abuse the law to destroy free speech, and innovation.
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Your argument is conjectural since it has not happened. Again, fair use is protected speech.
I don't see how preventing piracy of other peoples' property destroys free speech and innovation. The pirate shares, steals or buys a little existing software code, steals all the content and creates nothing. This is not "innovation" or "free speech".
The content producers are the creators and innovators. If the content producers and intellectual property owners, i.e. "scum bag copyright holders", want to give away the content they own for free, so be it. The IP is theirs to do with as they please.
No free speech issue here that has not already been addressed by the courts and pirates are certainly not innovative.
