The Copyright Crusade a Lost Cause?

A. Smith writes "Ars Technica is exploring the relationship between property rights and copyright, arguing that copyright holders are making a mistake by stressing similarities between property rights and copyright. They compare P2P users to 18th-century squatters in North America: 'Like squatters of old, many ordinary users find copyright law bewildering and are frustrated by the arbitrary restrictions it imposes. Customers wanting to rip their DVD collections to their computers, download music they can play on any device, or incorporate copyrighted works into original creative works find that there is no straightforward, legal way to do these things.' They conclude by offering that more reasonable, understandable copyright restrictions would result in a user base friendlier to publisher interests."

Re:Inconsistent Logic

[techpawn]

How would you determine the tax to be paid on an open source project? Or on this post?

Your posts? I'd say they're worth two cents, maybe a penny for your thoughts...

Then again that's just my $0.02

Re:if ip = real p, how about some taxes

[TheRaven64]

I suggest that we rename it notional property, and then it can be treated in the same way as property if they can prove that NP = P.

Re:You guys can try and twist the issue but...

[db32]

You pirates are all the same. You can't justify your crimes with "I want to make backups" or any of this nonsense about transfering. You didn't buy the content of the DVD, you bought content for use in a DVD player. That means you need to pay up again if you want to watch it on a iPod because you didn't purchase content for use in an iPod. Don't you know that making backups and transfering content supports terrorism? People like you are how 9/11 happened! Making copies of movies and music costs this country more than all of the bank robberies and should justify its own federal enforcement branch.

I hope the RIAA/MPAA throw you in Gitmo with all of the other terrorists for putting America in such danger!