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When the original copyright laws were written creating copies was very expensive. The law makers had the choice of putting the point of control at the place of sale or at the point of copy. Since most large cities only had a few places where the material could be copied but thousands of places where they could be sold the logical and correct choice was made. Put the enforcement at the point of copy.
With modern technology this is no longer the case so yes retaining the point of control at the "copy" is illogical and incompatible with modern technology.
Attempting to enforce a copy control with modern technology will inherently collide with personal rights and freedoms. These facts are continually ignored by the special interest groups that are attempting to push through the laws and the politicians that don't understand technology. "Damn the consequences, piracy has to be stopped". As has already been mentioned above these measures will fail and we will end up with the worst of both worlds, our personal rights and freedoms stomped over and continued copyright infringement.
It is possible to maintain copyright laws based on the old concepts of how it used to work with paper books but it can only work as a gentleman's agreement without strong enforcement. The good news is that people have already demonstrated that they will continue to buy individual copies even though they could easily acquire it from a file sharing site.
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