Combuster wrote:
The system can be so much lighter - and fairer - if hosters are required to identify uploaders rather than uploads, because it means that legal disputes go back to the judicary system where due process is constitutionally guaranteed, than having the megacorps pass judgement on their biased whims.
That rather presupposes that it is easier to verify people than to verify data. I'm not sure that is true. It is easy to disguise yourself as a person. If you successfully disguise a creative work then you probably change it so much that it is no longer subject to the original copyright. Also, I think that people overlook the very reasonable provisions that copyright laws make for "fair use".
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An other alternative is to abolish copyright altogether, and let the industry finally learn to be post-industrial and run on service. Your screen can never capture a physical presence at a concert, nor is there any art to copy in the first place if you didn't pay the commission fee to have it made for you.
That sounds a bit to me like saying that you should abolish the concept of ownership altogether. If someone cares about your car enough to steal it, and you don't care enough to make that impossible, then perhaps the thief deserves the vehicle more than you. Why go to all the complications of police, courts, judges and juries when we can just say that no-one has the right to exclusive ownership of things? It would save a lot of money and make life so much simpler.