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Originally Posted by gweeks
Having had discussions with new hires just out of college and kids just graduating from high school I was appalled at the general opinion about copyright. I expect copyright to be dead in 20 years or less. None of the young people I've talked to have any respect for copyright at all.
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When I was college age, I knew plenty of people who would record cassette copies from their friends' LPs and cassettes. That was 30 years ago. And one of the most prolific ebook pirates I know is in his 50s, and uses the excuse that he can't afford to pay for them.
I don't expect that copyright will go away completely, if for no other reason that copyright protects people and/or companies from outright appropriation from other companies. Even though the RIAA/MPAAfia is using the courts to make examples of a few file sharers, most of them don't have the deep pockets of a corporate violator.