Every DVD I play still has an image of the FBI’s badge above a copyright warning that threatens to sick the FBI on anyone who duplicates the disk or plays it over the air or some other obscure crimes. Let’s be real, the FBI exists to investigate crimes and enemy spies, and over just the last few years they have been taken up investigating Republicans. Copyright infringement of a DVD is a minor civil offense, which should be investigated at the copyright holder’s expense. The FBI doesn’t have to time or the inclination to go after teenagers who duplicate DVDs.
And, the younger generation feels it is perfectly OK copy anything they like, music, movies, games, Mickey Mouse or whatever. When they get old enough, they will vote against parties and politicians who support copyright law. The Republicans could gain a foothold with the younger generation by supporting sensible copyright reform, such as copy right lasts for only 17 years, for music, movies, and Mickey Mouse. The labels would scream and cry and threaten to hold their breath, but the labels don’t have the vote. The younger generation does have the vote.
At a minimum we could tell the labels that the FBI badge is copyright to the government and it will cost the labels $5 a DVD to use it.
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