The entertainment industry just can’t help itself. It sees every piece of personal technology that it doesn’t control as a piracy device, nothing more or less.
So the industry is pushing for a variety of measures to control all kinds of distribution, and to punish anyone who wants to exert fair use rights. The threat to all of us is profound if these pirates get away with their plunder.
At long last, however, the antitrust enforcers are waking up to the fact that this cartel is working to own and control every medium of distribution. And maybe, just maybe, law enforcement will act to curb the cartel.
No one condones real piracy — the people who make thousands of copies of copyrighted material and sell it. But to ban fair use as a way of preventing casual copying, which has gone on for decades, is even more dangerous.
In their endless greed, the entertainment moguls are showing us who the real pirates are. They should look in the mirror.