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Originally Posted by Whistler
historically only publishers can infringe the copyright, maybe the 80s is the beginning of extending this to the common people.
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Interesting. Everyone is now considered to be a publisher because it is easy to make a copy of digital media and post a it on a P2P network for mass distribution.
It looks to me that we are being viewed as "consuming commodities" to be herded like cattle for the benifit of corporate interests. If we're not paying for something, then laws are passed to create the conditions needed to force people into buying whatever it may be.
We're living in a world where evreything imaginable can be owned and paid for.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that only the big corporations are the ones that end up owning everything.