Law in the Internet Society

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 The incremental costs seem to be too large, and the likelihood of success so slim in the near future, that activists should quit and enjoy their pirated movies in peace. The world they worked for has arrived. Technology and culture have been launched on an unalterable trajectory that tolerates copying and noncommercial modification by individuals. And having strong copyright on books allows the open source movement to flourish around the GPL, and for institutional content creation to still happen. Fixating on legal perfection is unnecessary and wasteful when the status quo of tolerated use and ineffectual enforcement delivers freedom from copyright oppression with acceptable tradeoffs.

Of course, nobody will actually relent or shut up -- it's much too fun to debate the issues. But copyright activists should realize that the current situation isn't so bad, and is a de facto loose copyright regime.

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The problem is that the copyrights industries realize that too, and are constantly pressing to mandate controls over consumer-facing technology to put the copyright system's pro-owner features beyond the reach of non-compliant human decision-making. Without the activism, pressure against these constant initiatives (in national legislation country by country, in bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, in industry standards fora, and in other venues) would be hard to maintain. You can't declare victory if the other fellow won't stop fighting.
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