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If you can't bet on the government change, you can certainly bet on copyright remaining as is and/or becoming more restrictive. Copyright reform is our collect
by run4yourlives 17y ago
If you can't bet on the government change, you can certainly bet on copyright remaining as is and/or becoming more restrictive.
Copyright reform is our collective wet dream, but there are powerful, powerful organizations and a lot of jobs riding on continued restrictions. It's the trade tariff of the 21st century, and it isn't going anywhere without a serious fight.
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- wmf 17y agoI wouldn't be surprised if copyright laws get more restrictive yet less enforceable. The result is that you can't bet on copyright actually working.
- netcan 17y agoCan't bet on and should bet against are not the same thing.
- cabalamat 17y ago> you can certainly bet on copyright remaining as is and/or becoming more restrictive In the short term, you're right. Gvoernment's aren't going to abolish copyright, or significantly loosen it. On the contrary, the MPAA/RIAA is pushing them to impose a new and more restrictive copyright regime (3-strikes, ACTA treaty, etc). But, computers and the internet make perfect digital copying machines. And no government can afford to ban them, it it wants to continue to have an economy. So, over the next 10 years: more restrive copyright, less well enforced, with enforcement becoming totally impractical Eventually the rise of pirate parties will force governments to scrap the increasingly restrictive copyright laws. But as you say the "powerful, powerful organizations" will fight this every step of the way. Eventually, however, we'll win -- history is on our side -- and in their bones they know it too.