In Reply to: doubtful if the RIAA will spend thousands upon thousands of dollars posted by Green Lantern on May 3, 2012 at 03:30:18:
In the past there were little old ladies who were sued for huge sums of money. This practice has stopped for the time being for various reasons, but it might resume in the future. The bloc has tried to get more draconian laws passed, including requiring ISPs to do the snooping for them and for customers to be disconnected from the Internet for repeated illegal copying.
This won't stop serious pirates, who will just go to the darknets.
It may take 100 years, but if anything approaching a free society still exists then there won't be copyright as we presently see it. If copyright laws on music were repealed tomorrow there would still be lots of recorded music made and distributed, IMO, but there wouldn't be super star pop musicians to the extent presently. Also no more block buster movies. On balance, this might be an improvement in the cultural situation.
Tony Lauck
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- RE: doubtful if the RIAA will spend thousands upon thousands of dollars - Tony Lauck 07:48:39 05/03/12 (0)