[Shaggy]

Originally Posted by Kali Yuga

The idea that governments are planning to inspect email or other one-to-one sharing for copyrighted material is slightly absurd.

It's already being discussed.

Sadly, anti-terrorism efforts are the not only more likely, but actual existing reason for additional government scrutiny. It's a straw man argument.

Generally, "terrorism" has been the boogey man that is used to push through additional scrutiny or laws that they otherwise likely wouldn't have been able to get away with.

And naturally, Engstrom makes no provisions for paying the creators of the "cultural heritage." There won't be much culture left, if the artists cannot survive while making it.

The standard argument to that is artists survived for a long time before copyright existed. Some of the greatest composers and artists created their works before the existence of copyright. Without copyright, creativity will still exist. You may not have music/book publishers putting out "cookie cutter" manufactured artists to keep the money machine rolling along, but I'm not sure the world will be worse off without quite so many pop artists or trashy novel authors.