this issue, then it is your DUTY to educate people as aggressively as possible. I know most of you already do, or think you do but I can't help but read the comments already made here today as being "the situation sucks, nobody understands, we are effed." Call me an optimist but I don't think the fight is over yet. Personally I am going to increasingly tailor my anti-IP-insanity rant to be along these lines:
The end-result of the current IP-law culture is a stifling of not only information flow and freedom of speech but to everyone's bottom line. Everything from stupid software patents to DMCA to the Mafiaa is stifling innovation and thus our economy. This reduces jobs, incomes and international competitiveness. The Baby Boomer generation in the U.S. made a conscious choice at some point to allow all manufacturing to die off and to replace this with the bastardized IP law business models. They did not understand the Internet, let alone the machines behind it, and so not only did they fail at the Dot Bomb point but long before that and continue to do so today. From the Democrats protecting "Hollywood" to the Republicans protecting "service providers" everyone knows the politicians are in the pockets.
So if you are talking to a Republican you explain that they should be for more information and copying freedom as it will take money out of their opponents pockets. If you are talking to a Democrat you explain that they should be for Net Neutrality because it takes money out of their opponents pocket. And if you are talking to a "regular joe" you explain that they should be for ALL of this because to do otherwise TAKES MONEY OUT OF THEIR POCKET. If we want an economy that can grow jobs and not just be a "new normal" then we must explain in DIRE & CERTAIN terms to Baby Boomers and the younger generation alike that innovation flees from IP law cultures like we have in place today. You can skip the lines about "making bits harder to copy is like making water less wet" because they don't understand or care about the impossibility of it if they can just ignore it. Instead, make sure you tie everything you say about stupid IP laws to their bottom line. Maybe a bit U.S. centric, but that is my perspective so it is all I've got.