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OceanCopyright will one day be overhauled. It won’t happen soon, and it won’t happen quickly, if for no other reason than that the infrastructure that supports the copyright laws is so huge and far-reaching that it will take some time to make changes that don’t completely blow up the system and leave chaos in the realm. But change will come.

Why am I so sure of this? It’s not because some few are calling for change. The renegade intellectuals, the well-muscled corporate giants, and the confused masses that call for changes - many of which changes don’t even make sense, and sometimes aren’t even real changes - are not the reason I know change will come.

The reason I am so sure that change will eventually come is that the populace has begun to be confused by the law, which leads to ridicule, which will lead to a public debate, and which leads to more and more outright defiance of the law. All of these things are already happening, and the incidence is increasing. It’s not a mere blip on the radar, it’s a surging of the sea that will raise the tidal line.


Posted in General on January 7th, 2008

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