John Sniadowski

UK

A little node in cyberspace

As others have commented, this may look like a farce but it has far deeper ramifications. Pirating is one thing, reasonable sharing is something completely different!

The big problem that is going to surface before long is that a legal precedence is going to be set in favour of the media giants, who will then be able to legally intimidate equipment manufacturers to build licensing mechanisms into all media handling software and hardware that will erode our basic freedoms to share cultural artefacts.

Once that takes hold it will pervade all manner of information sharing, so we will all end up beholden to a few international mega corps for anything we want to share. Everyone will then loose out, not just the small percent of the population who go overboard in sharing.