In some ways I can see a point to why copyright protection is useful, and why it still is today. On the other hand copyright law around the world has gotten ridiculous, has gone too far, and has gotten to the point it has fallen from the ideas in which it was created for in the first place to more benefit big businesses and the wealthy. It's a good thing the people with the mindset of most businesses today didn't exist over a thousand years ago and get to make the laws then. Arabic numbers and the alphabet would be illegal to use today without paying for them, museums wouldn't exist, and if some bard picked up a tune in one town from somebody he heard and took it to the other he probably would have been killed for "stealing". It's a good thing radio stations that play music also came around before copyright stupidity came about also, and yet nobody even thinks twice about them now.
Not only our the infringements of things that are nothing more than information effects exaggerated by the people who don't like it, (not that I'm condoning it necessarily, because there are still some cases where it's still wrong) but far too many things are protected or protected too long that shouldn't be.
As far as this case goes I always thought contributory infringement was something that wasn't recognized in Sweden. I never liked going after people for contributory infringement anyhow (It sounds like a term big businesses and politicians made up.) because it doesn't make sense considering they are just stating facts of where something is. It would be like somebody busting a person because they just happened to mention a bootlegger or drug dealer down the road.
Not only our the infringements of things that are nothing more than information effects exaggerated by the people who don't like it, (not that I'm condoning it necessarily, because there are still some cases where it's still wrong) but far too many things are protected or protected too long that shouldn't be.
As far as this case goes I always thought contributory infringement was something that wasn't recognized in Sweden. I never liked going after people for contributory infringement anyhow (It sounds like a term big businesses and politicians made up.) because it doesn't make sense considering they are just stating facts of where something is. It would be like somebody busting a person because they just happened to mention a bootlegger or drug dealer down the road.
