from Hacker News

Internet Pirates Will Always Win

by Nikkki on 8/5/12, 12:07 AM with 2 comments

• by einhverfr on 8/5/12, 1:16 AM

  What if the canard of online piracy is really cynically used as a way to push for tighter copyright controls, not to cut down on piracy, but rather just as an end to itself?

  In many fairs, whac-a-mole prints out tickets and if you get enough you redeem for a prize. Here the prize is ever greater degrees of control and ever eroding protections for fair use. Copyright terms forever minus a day with no fair use possible? Maybe that's the real prize they are going after.