According to the Piracy Seminar today we hook up with three or four key companies and start suing people...Make some money and watch the pirates cry...Apparently that tac is catching on. I like it. Enough complaining start suing.

People pirating to friends on a one to one basis has happened for long before the Internet. VHS days and music on tape cassettes made it east to copy and give it to friends, or sell it out of the back of your car at a swap meet. The damage was minimal and no one really worried.

The Internet turned it into a real business where 10,000s could get something for free. And the damage is immense. The problem is that they do know it's wrong, but don't fear facing the consequences.

The situation is for many it has to mean a lifetime copyright for them to remain profitable and to keep people employed. Let's use books as an example.

Let's say when the level of profit has been reached, that was decided to be fair, on one book copyright was lost and it was deemed in the Public Domain. What about other books in the publishers catalogue that haven't reached that level and may never?

What happens now is the excessive profit from "Harry Potter" novels. Funds the publishing of others. With your thinking Harry Potter would never of got published in the first place, because it's well known in the book publishing world that children's books are not slam dunk successes. This would of happened with the Beatles, King's Speech and many other products that have to be copyrighted for their lifetime. To pay for the gambles that didn't work out.

To ensure we get the creative long shots and not fed pulp mush that's guaranteed to make a profit.

And what are the penalties for someone who, under the idea you propose, for pirating copyrighted products anyway? Because he has more traffic to sell to traffic brokers than the legal distributors of works that are in the Public Domain.

Or rewrite DMCA. Make advertisers, ad brokers, traffic, hosts, processors, etc connected to the site. Liable after receiving a DMCA, registered mail and from a lawyer to weed out the false ones, liable to damages. Then those people will think twice about supporting theft to make a profit.

I'm old enough to remember a time when great music like Sgt Peppers, Tommy, Dark, Side, Court of the Crimson King, Electric Ladyland, etc were released. Along with great films, Lawrence of Arabia, Cleopatra, GodFather, etc. as well. Yes dated today, but possible under the old system of one movie or album having a lifetime to make the return to make the gamble of producing it pay off. Or make so much it paid for the lost gambles. ST23 thinks we should change that.

Well he has helped. What music or film of the last 2 years compares with them? And there were many many more.