Current mood:	indescribable
Current music:	Vanessa Rodrigues - "Runnin' & Rippin' & Runnin'"
Entry tags:	copyright, law, media, music

we don't even know what "illegal" means anymore
"I am sure the people in Canada recognize this is an illegal act and would like to see legislation preventing that from happening," argues Dan Fellman, some guy in charge of distribution at Warner Bros.

Heh, Fellman would like to see legislation to back up this "illegal act". Maybe it's 'cause I find phrases like "usually always" or "literally took my head off" to be a sign that we don't even know what we're talking about anymore, but the idea that you designate an action as illegal and then make a law prohibiting it seems to hint at a strange idea of what terms like "legal" and "illegal" mean in contemporary society.

This of course is not an argument for or against music copyright laws (my arguments against modern copyright laws are undoubtedly better expounded elsewhere). It's just an example of how the mainstream idea of public debate is so incredibly, and sadly unsurprisingly, inane.