> I don't see how limiting the number of artists benefits society. I don't see how DRM or 3-strikes laws benefit society. The Internet exists. Its purpose is

> I don't see how limiting the number of artists benefits society. I don't see how DRM or 3-strikes laws benefit society. The Internet exists. Its purpose is to copy enormous amounts of data and sent it around the world quickly and cheaply; that's not a side-effect, it's what the net was designed to do. This spells death to business models based on selling copies of digital data. Society must therefore either accept that a good deal of unauthorised copying will take place, or it must castrate the Internet. It may harm society if artists earn less money; but it will harm socierty a lot more if we castrate the Internet.