[thegathering]

Originally Posted by sciguy125

Personally, I think we're on the verge of a paradigm shift. I have a feeling that intellectual property laws will drastically change over the next few decades.

I see the change happening much sooner. Over the next half decade, we'll see drastic changes to laws concerning intellectual property.

That's why women can vote and we don't have slaves.

Also why a Hutu minority controlling the people were able to commit genocide against almost a million Tutsi.

I share a similiar vision of the future as William Gibson, a future of revolutionaries and extreme polarities in culture. I want to believe that educated people will soon care enough to stop dangerous organizations such as the RIAA the same way Linux and GNU is fighting the Microsoft monopoly.

This poll so far has shown that the stunning majority of educated people who care about our future also care enough to want the reign of the RIAA to end.

This poll helps to confirm my vision of radical changes appearing in the near future brought by victims of the RIAA.

This also helps to support my theory that politics and free knowledge to do not match well. As we see politicians get more involved with the internet, we see the quality of the internet decrease with proposed regulations on internet traffic, content, and services.

Perhaps I'm crazy or perhaps I just want to see the internet restored to it's less threatened state 5 years ago, but I do not believe citizens' rights can be protected when there is an organization that has become so radical that has suggested students drop out of school to pay the RIAA fees, filed lawsuit against deceased grandmothers, and even tried to sue people who have never used computers without even the slightest suggestion of a crime.