Copyright is not a right, it is a privilege.
Intellectual property is property. Tax it.
Rational copyright holders will willingly donate the property to pass irrevocably into the public domain when the tax burden exceeds expected future income.

And make the holders declare their ownership and pay the annual tax, lest they immediately lose the privilege irrevocably for non-payment.

Setting the tax rate might be difficult. Due to Hollywood accounting, probably it should be based on the first few year's gross.

This is too simple to happen.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi

...The pedantics lost....

To be precise, the correct word to describe a pendantic person is pedant.

Pedantically yours,

The Grammar Pedant
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"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell

... He deserves a sainthood.

As I understand it, at least for the Roman Catholic Church, a person can only be recognized as a saint once they are dead.

I would rather wish Mr Snowden has a long, comfortable, happy, free life.
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I'm trying to think how this could end well.

APL WTF!

Not Congressperson,
not Congresswench,
for a long time the correct term has been Congresscritter.
Or outside DC, Varmint
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. -- James Madison

Most US laws seem to be rushed attempts to earn donations/bribes.

If they lobbiests can't keep the cash flowing, the law should be replaced by one that pays more.

Who knows, some public spirited corporation might even finance a law that favored their customers.

And pigs might fly.
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Ahhh, I see the fuck-up fairy has visited us again.

These high powered lasers can bore a hole through a normal household mirror

Front silvered?
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There is no mercy, only ashes.

What is the value of the NSA?
They openly lie (badly) to Congress. Who would believe them in a closed briefing?
They can be penetrated by a random contractor. How many foreign agents are in there all the time, copying anything worth having and sending it home?
Are they supposed to be a disinformation channel?
That spin might just work, but how about reducing their budget to match?

Sending all NSA staff to Gitmo would probably remove most foreign agents from US soil. And show an equal respect for the constitution.
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Metadata equals surveillance; always remember that. -- Bruce Schneier

Hate is Great!

Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice. ....

R Frost
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Seasonally Inappropriate Greetings to All

You must be new around here.

Sorry, but it had to be said.
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It's ALWAYS all about the money.

ISTR in the old days, watching TV sport with the sound OFF, and getting audio from a radio source. Moved to the UK, where there is public radio sports coverage, and get the video highlights later (free and no adverts, except for other BBC programs).

What is this advertising of which you complain? I think the last advert I heard was for cranberry shortcake (Bob and Ray).
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The United States Mint - One of the nation's leading producers of genuine U.S. currency.

Bit torrent?
Set up your very own very private tracker(s).
Create a torrent of the file trees to be duplicated and protected on the original host.
Leech it at all the redundant sites.
Wait for them all to complete the download and become seeds.
From time to time, but not all at the same time, force a recheck on each member of the swarm, to detect corruption
A failure should trigger a download to correct the corrupted block from the swarm.

You can probably get better advice on how to handle a growing archive.
I would probably try to add another torrent of the added files, then
wait for the swarm to download those files.
Then create a new torrent file that includes the old and the new in a single torrent and use that for the next forced recheck cycle.

You probably want to have a few scripts to automate the rechecks and updates.
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The world is coming to an end, but don't stop seeding

Are you still hoping for a change, sucker?

This man does not walk the walk.
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Irrational fear is the new patriotism.

Does nobody remember Active-X?

Don't download and run strange code. Ever.
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

... "Sanjuro" is a standard alias for a 30 year old guy (it literally means "30 year old guy", more or less) ...

and all this time I thought it meant, "Return of the Bodyguard"

...and I don't mean Kevin Costner.