I agree! Although the most popular movies will be preserved, so much other stuff will disappear, never to return. It's already happening.

If it weren't for these long copyright laws, people could openly archive and share these cultural artifacts so that they will be available to future generations.

Incidentally, this is why I think electronic-only, DRM-encumbered releases of books, music, and videos are vastly inferior to physical copies of the same. Physical media (well books and vinyl records anyway) will outlast technologies and whims of history, and can be digitized hundreds of years from now.

I have a full time job (game developer) and I'm part of one of the high end WoW guilds here in the US, http://www.elitistjerks.com/

We raid four or five nights a week. It's scheduled during the evenings and we try to keep our raids to a maximum of four hours. I get home from work, eat dinner, then raid in the evening. I'd rather be doing that then watching mindless television or something. I'd say I play around 12 to 20 hours of WoW a week and quite enjoy it. Sure, that's more than a casual player who plays it a couple hours a week, but I'm not putting 80 to 100 hours a week into the game.

Hi. Um, are you the Daniel Cerman from moby.org?

Britian is actually doing it fine.
Why break whats working?

Anyway this idea seems a very bad idea.

I wonder if its because of the non-christan religious significance of the solar year.

I can just see bush hearing about people celebrating the autumn equinox, and going
'I dont like that. Lets get rid of it.'