[LINK] Does copyright have a future? [WAS: iinet wins!!]

[David Boxall]

On 9/02/2010 10:14 AM, Frank O'Connor wrote:
>>
>>>   ...
>>>   Enforceability of copyright probably isn't the issue ... that's a
>>>   simple problem of evidence and process ...
>> If truly simple, wouldn't enforcement be common? Copyright privileges
>> are often infringed. If enforcement is simple, why isn't it practised?
>
> Usually because of cost-benefit analysis. The evidence and process
> costs time and money to initiate so the copyright holder wants to get
> best value for money so to speak.
>
> Any idiot can draft a summons/writ and issue it through a court ...
> hey, that's why we have lawyers.
> ...
So: simple in theory, unrealistic in practice.

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