An interesting peice here folks for those of an intellectual disposition
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/copyright-crusade.ars/2Getting users to stop sharing files and circumventing DRM is likely to prove just as hopeless as getting squatters to leave their homes. There are now millions of people who think nothing of evading the law, and there are simply not enough courts to try more than a tiny fraction of them. Sooner or later, Congress will have to do for the copyright system what it did for property rights in the 19th century: change the law to bring it back into line with peoples' moral intuitions.
The fundamental lesson is that property rights are not, and never have been, created by Congressional fiat. Property rights emerge spontaneously from the social fabric of a community. The job of the legislature is not to create a property system from scratch, but to formalize the property arrangements that communities have already agreed upon among themselves. A system of property rights will only be effective if it is widely viewed as legitimate.
I agree with the basic assertion put forward here, it is the citizens rights the government should be upholding, not enhancing a legal monopoly clause to become overbroad and unusable to generate excessive revenues that do not and never will benefit those that it was brought in to protect.
To restore the balance of this monopoly (the right of copy) it should be enshrined in law that the artist is the sole owenr of their work and no other, only in this way can the level of protection be matched up with the publics expectation of copyright law legitimacy.
Whilst the right of copy has become a saleable asset it has become its own brake to exploitation, as the consumer is fully aware less than one tenth of the generated revenue is going to the artist, there seems always the danger they will as many have throughout time decide that such a situation is unfair and ignore the law, this then is why we will alway have successful laws mirroring public expectations, those that dont are destined to fail.
