The internet has been a wonderful thing for billions of people since it's inception. Why on earth are legislators trying to make it a quagmire like anything else they touch? Really it's a great example of market based forces and what they can accomplish. Please, for all our sakes, leave it alone.

And just because you shouldn't do something, doesn't mean you should be punished for doing it. If something is legal and allowed i should be able to do it no matter how off color it may be. That was the whole point of enumerating our rights and not letting the government trample them. You also have a slight misconception about rights. Society does not give me my rights. They are ingrained in me just by the fact that i exist. Therefore i do no hold any responsibility to society in general. In fact society tries to remove those rights from me. Therefore i have a responsibility to fight society to regain those rights which have been stolen from me.

"The court is just there to interpret laws, and activist rulings undermine democracy." I guess it depends on what country you are in. The US has something called "Jury Nullification" and it is one of the fundamentals that make real democracy work. (The judicial system does not like telling you about it though.)

....ettled; he said that. This is not about simple murder, kidnapping, etc, this is about laws which are changinga ll the time, as fast as the *AA can push their c....

The saddest part is that people seem to take this copyright law and elevate it to pedestals yet unseen. Most people are more feverish about copyright than murder (which is a problem in it's own right).

Murder has a definite ethical impact on most people and so does copyright. We don't consider murder to be a controversial issue because we know what it is and that it is ethically wrong. Likewise most people know how they feel about their property and copyright and feel ethically correct about their decision.

It is a simple issue, not a complicated one. The only complication here are greedy corporations.

I'm sure if they could find a way to profit on murder the way they profit on music, we would see MIAA (Murder Industry Association of America) preaching that some serial killer infringed on their IP of stabbing someone. It's ridiculous and insane and i can't believe that people have put up with this crap for as long as they have.