Lunatic Platitudes

Here is a quote from a below linked story. It’s encouraging to me that maybe there are limits to the reaming society is getting from copyright vultures in the music and movie industries.

“In tort law, as the Court recognized, Op. at 29, a landowner is subject to liability for physical harm to trespassing children caused by an artificial condition upon the land where there is a substantial risk of serious bodily harm and the landowner fails to exercise reasonable care to eliminate the danger. An unfenced in-ground swimming pool is the classic example. In this case, the plaintiffs facilitated and enhanced the comparative availability and attractiveness of their songs on the peer-to-peer networks. They failed to fence off the songs they published on CD by encrypting them, and they refused to provide an unencrypted online alternative for obtaining them. In consequence Tenenbaum, along with millions of others like him, fell into the vast, unfenced pool of unauthorized peer-to-peer file-sharing.”

And the link: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/tenenbaums-p2p-use-the-labels-made-me-do-it.ars

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