Around 20 years? Reasonable. More than 40 years? Bullshit. 70 years? GTFO. This just shows how greedy (not the artists; not to this extent) companies are. In my opinion, anything and everything that is said to be "copyrighted" should just require attribution. I don't know much about this... But it's interesting, and I want to understand it better.

I think your point is that this article is all about misconception and narrow-mindedness, such as the fact that using Bittorrent at all is undeniable evidence that one is infringing copyright. I actually think this article fails to represent the actual claims, which are that he was actually infringing copyright and changing is grades. But the guy's roommate, who spilled all the beans, wouldn't have been questioned in the first place, had the police not been suspicious of Linux and double-booting.