Originally posted by wolfgang59
A very thoughtful reply to my post.
I must say I agree with your assessment of the problem (though not the extent) but cannot agree that flouting copyright law is the answer.
however you make many good points ... perhaps each is worthy of discussion?
if interested I suggest in "General" as "Debates" is full of rednecks!
Wolfie
Well, I'm certainly no supporter of Kim Dotcom and people like him, for example. They—him especially—bring out a visceral revulsion in me. I don't propose that people flout copyright law, but laws should be designed to fit or influence/change the world we live in now, not the world we lived in a couple of decades ago or more, so reform is probably overdue.
I think a lot of good people have been trying to work out and propose solutions (whether in governments or in conjunction with them, or without government input I am not sure). I've been following the arguments in MacUser with quite a bit of difficulty at times, and I can't summarise them easily. Maybe I'll suggest they write a feature recapping and analysing their previous discussions with some new input from people like me. That kind of feature is not something they have done before (at least not to the extent I think is necessary) but they're smart people so I'm sure they'd at least give it careful consideration. I have passionate thoughts and feelings on the matter that I think they either ignore, or are not aware of, or had already dismissed before I started taking an interest, but I find it very difficult to shape them into words.
You are welcome to start a thread on anything I've put forward. I'm a bit thread-tired now, so I probably won't start anything for a while, but if you do I'll try and contribute.