Out of curiosity, when you say, "in general [...] the system is okay," are you including the DMCA in the okay part?
I'm not an absolutist on this issue -- I find it hard to let go of the idea of having some protections, some notion of IP, but also see the value of sharing. I think returning to more reasonable durations for copyright and undoing some of the recent, bizarre, big-media-power-grab restrictions on what you can do with your single, legally purchased copy of a work, would go a long way toward fixing the system.
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I'm not an absolutist on this issue -- I find it hard to let go of the idea of having some protections, some notion of IP, but also see the value of sharing. I think returning to more reasonable durations for copyright and undoing some of the recent, bizarre, big-media-power-grab restrictions on what you can do with your single, legally purchased copy of a work, would go a long way toward fixing the system.