>NYT's current obsession (albeit, widely shared) with music and film
>"copyright," and crypto-enhanced intellectual property protection.
Copyright is a short-lived aberration (60-70 years ?), and technology is
finally dealing with it. Copyright is going away, and of course that
industries that capitalized on it will fight all the way, but it doesn't
look as if they are achieving anything, as far as private use goes.
Copyright will continue to exist where brick-and-mortar entities are
concerned (if you don't pay royalty we come and burn you down.)
That is, unless analog recording equipment is criminalized and
exterminated (illegal possession of a microphone - 5 years. Possession
of a microphone while committing a copyright crime - 10 years.)
