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Originally Posted by Bossman
Well - you need to understand that this is the "world wide" web, and that not all countries have the same relaxed rules as the US.
Ex. 1 month ago in Denmark there was a community website (Connery.dk) which was fined for 20 erotic still pictures uploaded by their users. Also in Italy 3 Google bosses were found guilty in breaking privacy violations by not removing a video of an autistic teenager being bullied.
I understand you like the concept of being able to share whatever you want, however when "college kids" started to build major money making businesses with piracy at their core, then they opened Pandora's box. You think western politicians will just stand by and watch their cultural exports erode, because some young college kid think he outsmarted the laws 
Politicians make laws, and they change them all the time... or as the Codex Holmiensis starts:
"With law shall land be built, but if all men would keep what is theirs, and let others enjoy the same rights, there would be no need of law".
Justice is the concept of rightness - you fuck with enough people, and you will be served.
Private lawsuits, ACTA etc. is just the beginning  |
the courts override bad laws all the times, the courts establish exceptions for fair use all the time.
and so far no fair use has been over ridden by new laws.
sure sometimes new laws are snuck by the lawmakers with a clause that can be abused to take way fair use rights, but when that happens those laws are repealed or invalidated by the courts.