On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:53 PM, drew Roberts <zotz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 15 July 2010 19:50:31 you wrote: >> IF copyright was restricted to the creator AND limited in duration to >> a single-digit number of years AND utterly non-transferable (even to >> next-of-kin) AND intent had to proven THEN i'd say that maybe 6 months >> or a year in jail, with options for first offenses and/or parole >> and/or scope of damages affecting the sentence? > > And why does it *have* to be criminal? Why not civil with proof of damages? (I > could easily live with what you state above as it is way better than what we > have here now and I am having to live with that. it doesn't need to be criminal. i was just getting caught up in your lead on a jail time suggestion. the biggest problem with the kind of scheme i'm describing above is that it relies above all on identifying the distributor/performer. its already clear that this is fundamentally impossible to do with any degree of reliability in the internet age. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
