Pirates of the Digital Millennium: How the Intellectual Property Wars Damage Our Personal Freedoms, Our Jobs, and the World Economy

Chapter 2. Is it Copyright or the Right to Copy?

	Authors and creators deserve to receive the benefits of their creation. But when those benefits stop, what they create should fall into the public domain. It does not do so now. Every creative act reduced to a tangible medium is protected for upward of 150 years, whether or not the protection benefits the author. This work thus falls into a copyright black hole, unfree for over a century.[1]
	--Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig

They're stealing all our content, sneaking it across the border at night and selling it in the streets at half the price…

The product is overpriced, inflated because the media have a government-sanctioned monopoly. We consumers shouldn't have to pay so much…

Think of the ...