…So what’s new, then ?

Wikipedia about paranoid statements such as “decriminalize ipod users”:

“Copyrights are generally enforced by the holder in a civil law court , but there are also criminal infringement statutes. Criminal sanctions are generally aimed at serious counterfeiting or file sharing activity”

This is also interesting:

“In the United States the AHRA (Audio Home Recording Act Codified in Section 10, 1992) prohibits action against consumers making noncommercial recordings of music, in return for royalties on both media and devices plus mandatory copy-control mechanisms on recorders.

Section 1008. Prohibition on certain infringement actions

No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings. “

One more thing. The only appropiate way to reform copyright is to set the length of the copyright term to zero.