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dcunning writes "The Economist has a short opinion piece entitled Copyrights: A radical rethink that suggests (horror of horrors!) going so far as reverting back to the original copyright term of 14 years, renewable once. The article suggests that, in exchange for this, the 'content industries' be given 'much of the legal backing which they are seeking for copy-protection technologies.' A worthwhile and fair tradeoff?"
Look I know its unpopular.
But simply making ISPs charge based on amount of data uploaded would fix this.
i.e. $20/month for 5BG uploaded, $30 for $10GB etc.
If I share a movie it costs me money on my ISP bill, so unless I'm a commercial distributor of movies then it doesn't make sense for me to distribute it, so I don't do it.
Similarly, If US ISPs charge foreign ISPs for data carried into their network. The non-US ISPs would have to pass the charges on aswell.
So it would have a ripple effect around the world. Without the US needing to use 'extrajudicial' tricks.
The copy protection part stays and copyrights never expire. The government should start making examples out of these kids on kazaa and other mass piracy tools by sending them to prison for life or executing them. Imagine how worried everyone would be if a few thousand 13-16 year olds were sentenced to death. It's time for you law breakers to grow up and obey the law. The government has the right to kill or imprison anyone who breaks the law just like they did at Waco, TX. The people there were law breakers and deserved to be burned alive. This is a socialist country and the people cannot be trusted and therefore must not be allowed to have weapons since those weapons can be used against the government. This is why the Waco incident was not only fair, but in the best interests of the government. The constitution is obsolete and doesn't apply anymore and neither do you people's idiotic arguments.