This sounds a lot like one of those trivial issues that gets really played up before an election or the like to make it seem like the party is really making progress pushing this "pressing issue", all the while forgetting what is really important. There are so many problems in the US and abroad at the moment that are far more pressing than copyright infringement. However they worry more about their pocketbooks than, say, the environment, drugs, diseases, the senseless death in Iraq etc. You don't get any sympathy over this issue until the important stufff is fixed.
No desert until you finish your dinner.
Another thing, why is it always the overly-rich corporates that complain about this kind of thing. Its not like it is really their own intellectual property anyways. Maybe it would make sense if the artists themselves actually stated how much this is hurting them... but wait it isn't.
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I think this says it all: http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20070 331/
This sounds a lot like one of those trivial issues that gets really played up before an election or the like to make it seem like the party is really making progress pushing this "pressing issue", all the while forgetting what is really important. There are so many problems in the US and abroad at the moment that are far more pressing than copyright infringement. However they worry more about their pocketbooks than, say, the environment, drugs, diseases, the senseless death in Iraq etc. You don't get any sympathy over this issue until the important stufff is fixed.
No desert until you finish your dinner.
Another thing, why is it always the overly-rich corporates that complain about this kind of thing. Its not like it is really their own intellectual property anyways. Maybe it would make sense if the artists themselves actually stated how much this is hurting them... but wait it isn't.