This article from arstechnica.com (here) speaks for itself. So I’ll shut up. After two quotes, that is:
“How many copyright violations does an average user commit in a single day? John Tehranian, a law professor at the University of Utah, calculates in a new paper that he rings up $12.45 million in liability over the course of an average day. The gap between what the law allows and what social norms permit is so great now that “we are, technically speaking, a nation of infringers.”
“The vast disparity between copyright law and copyright norms simply highlights the need for effective copyright reform… What better way could there be to create a nation of constant lawbreakers than to instill in that nation a contempt for its own laws? And what better way to instill contempt than to hand out rights so broad that most Americans simply find them absurd?”
