Amputate:
Before you engage in these discussions, you might want to inform yourself a little bit. It is NOT illegal to tape a television show for your own personal use. In other words, as long as the reproduction doesn't leave your possession. It isn't even illegal to have your friends over or take it over to their house to show. What is illegal is charging to see it or publishing it in any way. The word "publish" comes from the same root as "public," with the implication that it is going beyond your household and circle of friends to a more general audience.
I know the law makes some fine points, but let's try to help you understand. The whole Napster thing was never about the end users, it was about Napster, which was in effect publishing material it had no rights to. If you want to make an MP3 at home from a CD you bought, you aren't violating anyone's copyright. Unless, of course, you offer it to the public (publication).
The "fair use" doctrine allows certain types of copies for educational use, for use in parodies and other legitimate derivative works (e.g., quoting a few bars of a well known song in another), and for use in serious research projects. Some of the examples of infringement you cited aren't infringements at all.
Anyway, all you are proving here is that you are woefully ignorant of copyright and I implore you to educate yourself a bit more before posting.
And what is your argument? That because many people break the law we should repeal it? No more copyright. No more speed limit? No more murder trials?
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