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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Well-said, Happ. Yes, this is an economics issue... economics is the exact reason copyright was invented...
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Again, not quite correct. The first modern copyright law, the Statute of Anne, explicitly stated it's has two purposes - one economic, and the other to encourage creativity. It's changed over time, certainly, but please don't state it was originally entirely an economic issue!
"There's a reason why copyright has lasted for as long as it has"
Sure, because mistakes were made and it became possible to reassign copyright (rather than just certain rights, and yes I know this varies in different media), hence creating corporations holding large amounts of copyright material and which they then defend because of its economic value.
Ralph Sir Edward - Heck, you're seeing the organised face now. Simply dismissing them is a bad mistake.
The Pirate Party's are growing
very rapidly - the original Swedish one is not the third largest party-by-membership, their youth organisation is the largest in Sweden (of *any* youth organisation), they have 2 MEP's (of Sweden's 20) after taking 7% of the vote and are widely expected to take quite a few seats in Sweden's 2010 elections.
Sure, they're the leading edge but especially in Germany they're not far behind - they captured 2% of the national vote in this years Elections, have a parliamentary seat and several seats on regional councils.