We, the Europeans and the copyright (Score 1)

We had the 'world day of the intellectual property' last friday. It was announced by the GEMA, a german institution that collects money for tapes, CD-Rs, Radio-stations and so on to support starving artists from the TOP 10.
An article about that event, regrettably in german, is here:

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/roe-26.04.02-0 00/

That topic has a weak lobby in Europe. There are only very few activists who doubt the sense of legal protection of intellectual property.
On the other hand nobody gives a shit about stealing intellectual property.
Everybody makes copies. I do not know a single company, which has licensed all their software. I know many people who watch TV and listen to the radio without paying for that (which is illegal, at least in germany. You have to pay GEZ-Fees. i. e. about 5 $ for the right to own a radio and 15 $ for a TV. Monthly).

http://www.gez.de

Nobody has a problem with sharing burned CDs or downloading loads of music or films from the internet.
I know absolutely nobody who you couldn't tell, that you do s.th. like that. It is not a problem to talk about that @ work. (Excepted the GEZ-thing. There are many GEZ-ads on TV which produce fear in that direction)
On the other hand I do not think, that the europeans will rebel against that law. They will ignore it and will be a bit surprised and disappointed when they buy new devices, which make it impossible to copy stuff.
But they will find their ways. It is possible, so it will be done. A tiny bit of quality loss by digital to analog? Who cares!

some reasonable links, but they are all in german.
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/copy/11547/ 1.html
http://www.heise-online.de/ct/02/02/080/
http://www.heise-online.de/ct/02/08/018/
http://www.freedomforlinks.de/
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/copy/defaul t.html