Jeremiah Blues

Here's a paper on the current state of copyright law. John Tehranian concludes that an average person could violate roughly 83 copyright laws per day, resulting in $12.45 million in damages, or $4.5 BILLION per year. These activities don't even include blatant attempts such as P2P file sharing. Of course, he stretches the possibility of each scenario to the limit of what's possible, and he totally disregards any fair use exceptions. Who would get sued for a public performance for singing in their car? Although, after the precedent set by the DMCA, fair use is essentially non-existent in digital terms, and that sets a dangerous precedent for non-digital mediums. I won't be surprised if someday I'm sitting in a nice minimum security prison, owing billions in compensation (his paper radically changes my original estimation of roughly $600,000) - but at least it will be a vacation.