Just imagine if usage of the Amen break would be illegal (technically it is, but the Winstons don't/didn't care)... an entire genre of music gone. If you think about it, culture is just taking something old and rearraging it slightly. Too restrictive copyright will lead to less cultural diversity.
I know 90% of the music I listen to from the Internet... what would happen if copyright law actually was enforced! I guess we would return to sharing cassettes and CDs like 'in the old days', but that was very limited.
As a music lover I feel criminalized... I spend a lot of money for CDs and try to buy everything I like. How is that different from going into a record store and listening to CDs there before you bought them (I wish there was a good record store here, I love good record stores).
Right now, I think there are two possibilities:
1) There will be a 1984 scenario. The Internet is shut down, and we will listen to generated music coming from the telescreens.
2) Copyright changes from the arbitrarily prolongable (we'll be at 95(!) years soon) tool of the music industry back to its original intent, which was that people gave a little of their freedom away in exchange for more content, nothing more nothing less. Just because you had a hit single or invented Mickey Mouse doesn't mean that your grandchildren are set for life.
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Originally Posted by Sean
she made no money at all because the releases were immediately made available for free on P2Ps and torrent sites by some jerk-offs.
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There will always be idiots like those, but this is a general problem of society and not limited to this one aspect.