Comments on: TorrentSpy lawyer battling 'copyright extremism'

Ira Rothken, a veteran of nasty copyright fights between Hollywood and Silicon Valley, has a large stake in the copyright system.

[hadaso]

They should put the RAM in an envelope and send it to the MPAA lawyers!

Does anyone here this "turn over what's in the RAM" business? How can it be turned over if the content changes millions of times a second and don't exist exept when the computer is on?

Should the telephone companies start recording all telephone calls because they might be ordered to turn over the content of the wires?

[perfectblue97]

RAM

They should certainly RAM something somewhere relating to the MPAA. The MPAA stifle creativity and innovation. Why oh why didn't the Framers put in a constitutional clause to give the people the same protection from big business as they get from the state.

[bwtanker]

Copyright

what's next are they going to go door to door to look at your computer.Years ago i had a tuntable and would copy music to my cassette deck,what's the difference.Movies and music can be had in many ways.Next they are going to be telling me i can't copy my 20 and 30 year old albums to tape or cd.

[thedreaming]

You can and can't.

The Copyright law states that you can't copy someone's Intellectual property without their consent, so you can't, but it also says that you can make a copy for personal archival reasons. So you can. The question here is: How can they say that we can and can't on the same breath? It's either one or the other, how can it be both?

[nicmart]

Where do record and film firms get their powers?

These industries get their immense, nasty, and overreaching
powers from congress. Which candidate for president believes that
the constitution does NOT empower congress to enrich and
empower the entertainment industry at the expense of consumers?
Only Ron Paul. So, vote!

[ethana2]

ABSOLUTELY!

Ron Paul for president. If you don't vote for him, you have little basis for your complaints.

Of course, I just want to see copyright shrivel up and die, and will not cease my efforts until it does, but in the mean time, we should try to keep as many of our freedoms as possible.

[lorcro2000]

Good question - bad answer

You've completely missed on your interpretation. They get their power from money. In other words, from us! We buy their product, they make billions and they funnel a small percentage (but still a lot of cash) straight into the pockets of Congress and the Senate and purchase representatives left and right.

Americans still seem to think they live in a Democracy - they are, of course, wrong. They live in a capitalistic state with some left-over trappings of Democracy still remaining, but make no mistake - the power lies in the hands that has enough money to buy politicians, and that means the movie studios, music industry, healthcare and insurance industries, big oil...

Until and unless a way is found to separate the lawmakers from the money, that's the way things will remain.

[CagedAnimal]

Subset of a bigger problem....

One real problem is how easy it is for wealthy parties to "win" court cases (force "settlements") solely because they can litigate the smaller party into bankruptcy. There should be a laws that mandate a level playing field, and keeping the legal budgets to something both parties can afford.

[dondarko]

that's justice for all for you

nuff said

[ralfthedog]

What the MPAA and RIAA are truly afraid of.

We are approaching a day when any random person will have the same creative and distributive tools that the big studios have. When that day comes, we will no longer need the gate keepers.