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[€uroMeinke]

Hmmmm - I think the whole DMCA and the concept of copyright in genreal needs to be revisited. The current laws make it next to impossible for someone like me to have any secondary use of the music I purchase.

For example, I'd love to add a music componant to this website, but in looking at what I would have to do to accomplish it legally the cost in both time and money made it ridiculously prohibited. Honestly, I don't know how people manage to play music for other people anymore.

I'd like to see the whole price structure changed. I've heard someone talk about building the costs into ISP fees - but I think perhaps the rights to "rebroadcast" in some limited fashion should be granted with purchase for personal use.

I'd like to see copyright protection drasticly reigned in to something like patents - after 7 years the work would become public domain. I think the large corporations are protected from the current laws, but the effect is to casue the smaller players to vanish into obscurity becasue it's so damn difficult to secure the rights of independent works to do much of anything with.

But that's my rant on copyright.