Re: Elephant in the room
How can copyright be enforced uniformly across the web when copyright rules vary from region to region?
Simple. The media companies will buy their way through the various national assemblies/parliaments until the copyright period matches their desired duration[1]..
[1] Life plus however long the media company desires. Want to read a book from 1500? Well - it's been grandfathered back into copyright so that version you downloaded from Project Gutenburg is now illegal..