http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Copyright+threatening/1969025/story.html
This Canadian article discusses the problems of copyright law and a right to privacy in a digital age. As people become more able to distribute copyrighted material over a number of private channels, the old copyright laws become unfeasible without constant and ubiquitous surveillance of citizens, which obviously flies in the face of civil liberties.
While this particular article gets off to something of an alarmist start, citing dictatorships and the KGB-like invasion of privacy in much of the Soviet Block, it's point remains valid. The media giants are attempting to maintain an outdated system rather than restructuring it for a new age. The result is that people willfully break the law that they no longer see as just while government is lobbied to spy on it's own citizens.
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I agree with this article and believe that the old copy right laws should be replaced to better suit the contemporary technology and society. It should not be a crime to share copy right materials with friends or family members and laws should be made to accommodate this. However, I believe that there should be strict laws to prohibit people from selling and from making profits from copy right materials.
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