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A frightening sign of our times, however, is the megamedia organizations (like the G word) are now pushing for legislation to require registration (for a fee) for any copyright to be enforceable. Imagine a blogger who creates one article a day, having to pay approximate $6,000 per year (or more) in registration fees.
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Can you point me to a source for that, please?
And would you please comment on the RIAA and MAFIAA cases where they sued people for copyright infringement via filesharing on the internet when some of those people didn't even own a computer or have internet access? Where they've sued poor people and talked them into settling KNOWING the people couldn't afford an attorney to fight them even if they were innocent?
Personally, I do think that some form of copyright is reasonable. However, I think it's absolutely ridiculous for copyright to extend 70 YEARS after an author's death, and that is a fairly recent development brought about by the Media Company lobbyists.
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
That was not at all what the founding fathers had in mind.
I do think that the internet is going to blow copyright out of the water. It's inevitable and simply a matter of time. Read the words of
Lawrence Lessig. Nothing you can do will stop it. You'd be better off trying to figure out a way to make a living without depending on it.