Artists don’t profit, rights holders don’t get it

The industry’s insistence to keep to their old ways of business is suicide, and apparently it’s clear to everyone but them. They desperately use any law they can find to scare people into their way of thinking, just so they can keep up their disgustingly high profits (of which, of course, the artist sees very little).

The industry needs to modernise and stop their ridiculous lies for their own good. That’s the theory, anyway: lucky for them they’re good friends with our politicians, and can get their own laws passed, as opposed to laws that would benefit both the people and the artist.

You’re guilty of something and we know it

After all, matching DNA found at a crime scene to a suspect’s retained DNA profile solves any crime within a day or so (at least according to your favourite CSI spin-off).

However, DNA isn’t as infallible as Anthony E. Zuiker or the government want us to believe – and databases full of DNA profiles definitely aren’t.

Comply, citizen!

Secret talks between governments? Surely, there’s another invasion on the books? Maybe one of them came up with a great plan to end all of the world’s suffering? No, they’re talking about changing and implementing international copyright law.
The discussions have a broad scope: our nations’ Wisest Men will be chatting away about anything from counterfeiting [...]