If I had my way, the heads of all the legislators that passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act would have their heads explode.

     Everybody says it’s about the artists ability to be compensated, that’s just so much bullshit.  Less than 1% of the income these people derive typically goes to the artist.

     But what it is doing is denying us access to our own culture and guaranteeing that our time on this planet will be forgotten as soon as the profit margin shrinks too far.

     What did artists do BEFORE the technology existed to make copies of their music?  They made money performing.  Why should they uniquely benefit, and even less so why should giant record labels benefit uniquely from copying technology rather than the whole of society?