Many years ago, when one could smoke everywhere, I would be really careful about where I smoked so that it didn't upset anyone or spoil their meal or just make their environment unpleasant. Then the non-smoking lobby got the wind in their sails and started demanding their right to a smoke-free environment and getting in my face about smoking. They pushed it further and further so that now, I couldn't give a monkey's toss about whether my smoking spoils their meal or makes their environment uncomfortable. What's all this got to do with copyright infringement - well mostly I think about what I'm doing, I know when something I'm doing might be a bit dodgy and, by and large I pay my dues and keep my nose clean. But I'm beginning to feel about copyright infringement as I do about smoking - the harder the "it's just plain wrong and is a very bad thing and will result in the collapse of society and all we hold dear if we allow it to go on unchecked" brigade bang on about I find myself thinking, in the immortal word of Catherine Tate - am I bovvered? Childish? Maybe, but I prefer to think of it as young at heart
