MPAA NOTICE

This MPAA NOTICE makes me feel like we're beginning to live in a fascist society. But on the other hand, is it really fascist when it is trade groups doing the enforcement, and not nationalism that they are enforcing?

Clicking on the internet is the equivalent of looking. A stream of electrons flows from one point to another and is displayed on a medium which can be perceived with the eyes. To argue that downloading is illegal is the same as arguing that cam-corders and dictation recorders should be illegal.

What ever happened to the free exchange of information? What ever happened to the betterment of society? Our culture is controlled by the entertainment industries, and they are dictating the cost of entering into our society. New Laws are crafted by the companies in charge in order to ensure their profit. Doesn't anyone else see this as ethically wrong? Effectively our legal system is being used as a way to generate revenue. I know there's a lot of history behind patent law and copywrite and the desire to ensure independent inventors have an incentive to innovate, but the independent inventor has no power in the current system; the only ones who benefit are the ones who do not need a hand up from the Government. So much culture, art, and even science has been lost in the clutter of legal hubris.