So about that copyright infringement...

[unixronin]

Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing points to a paper by John Tehranian^(PDF) out that according to a strict application of copyright law as the MPAA and RIAA would like to apply it, an average person during the course of a normal day could, all quite accidentally, commit acts of copyright infringement totalling over $12 million in penalties.  That's about $4.4 billion per person, per year, just in the course of going about your day.

And THAT is ridiculous.

Comments

[fatcook.livejournal.com]

Let's not bring her into this, please.

In reading the review it well stated as what could happen. What I love is by the author's example most members of both MPAA and RIAA would be in constant volition of the copy-right laws they are espousing.

[rbos.livejournal.com]

pff, like Rand or not, she's BANG on the mark on that one and I'll quite happily stand by it.