Don't worry, the art will be there. There are people passionate about the art that the creation will continue even if we abandon the copyright entirely. Somehow musicians made money before the any recordings were possible, and very successful music was written without any copyright laws in place. The famous paintings and designs were done without the copyright laws either.
Imagine for a second that someone who came up with a music scale could get it "copyrighted" or "patented". Seriously, the guy spent time and came up with a set of specific frequencies that were pleasant to the ear. We want to protect those "inventions" or else there will be no incentive to create music scales? Right...
The humanity evolved and developed because we shared knowledge. Initially it was "you have a fire, let me borrow it", or "you figured how to make something better, let me take it and improve upon it". Until recently, the act of sharing was considered to be something good: "I enjoyed this book, please have it", "you need to move your lawn, feel free to borrow my mover". That has started to changed after large corporations started guarding their profits and came up with a loophole that essentially removes any ownership from the people. We don't own books, we only lease them; we cannot play music as we wish, improve on it or reproduce it without obliging to some stiff laws that came into play just recently to serve the interests of large corporations.
Now the free thinkers who take an existing idea and make it better are being vilified. In fact, many things (and more are appearing) cannot even be taken apart without breaking some laws, they cannot be resold, they cannot be used creatively for something else.
The fact that the piracy will not be defeated will be a minor point compared to majority embracing the notion that "doing something creative is bad and illegal, let's not do it."
All the site providing the links need to do is to include "password=xyz" in the URL and call it a "secret link". If the logic is that the published URL with the password somehow infringed the original copyright, then publishing the link TO the forum will also constitute the infringement as well. By that logic, Google will be guilty of infringement if it indexes the sites with "password=xyz" in the URL. And the forum site could say "sorry, your Honor, we intended the site to be password protected, yeah the implementation sucks, but we cannot be guilty by your previous ruling!"
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I'd rather work in a machine shop or similar.
Don't worry, the art will be there. There are people passionate about the art that the creation will continue even if we abandon the copyright entirely. Somehow musicians made money before the any recordings were possible, and very successful music was written without any copyright laws in place. The famous paintings and designs were done without the copyright laws either.
Imagine for a second that someone who came up with a music scale could get it "copyrighted" or "patented". Seriously, the guy spent time and came up with a set of specific frequencies that were pleasant to the ear. We want to protect those "inventions" or else there will be no incentive to create music scales? Right...
The humanity evolved and developed because we shared knowledge. Initially it was "you have a fire, let me borrow it", or "you figured how to make something better, let me take it and improve upon it". Until recently, the act of sharing was considered to be something good: "I enjoyed this book, please have it", "you need to move your lawn, feel free to borrow my mover". That has started to changed after large corporations started guarding their profits and came up with a loophole that essentially removes any ownership from the people. We don't own books, we only lease them; we cannot play music as we wish, improve on it or reproduce it without obliging to some stiff laws that came into play just recently to serve the interests of large corporations. Now the free thinkers who take an existing idea and make it better are being vilified. In fact, many things (and more are appearing) cannot even be taken apart without breaking some laws, they cannot be resold, they cannot be used creatively for something else. The fact that the piracy will not be defeated will be a minor point compared to majority embracing the notion that "doing something creative is bad and illegal, let's not do it."
All the site providing the links need to do is to include "password=xyz" in the URL and call it a "secret link". If the logic is that the published URL with the password somehow infringed the original copyright, then publishing the link TO the forum will also constitute the infringement as well. By that logic, Google will be guilty of infringement if it indexes the sites with "password=xyz" in the URL. And the forum site could say "sorry, your Honor, we intended the site to be password protected, yeah the implementation sucks, but we cannot be guilty by your previous ruling!"