Reply To: Political Statements
You’ll forgive my saying so, but the tone of your posts comes across as plaintive and there’s a lot of demagoguery in them as well.
It seems to me like you hold a minority opinion on what copyright should be (see: your support of extremely flawed legislation such as SOPA); more to the point, your opinion flies directly in the face of the reality of modern digital distribution. In a perfect world, sure, artists should get the right to say who gets to use their work, and be paid for it.
I don’t think it’s reasonable – or even sane – to believe that this sort of ideal can be reached today. It certainly has never been true historically, and is increasingly less so as technology drives us forward. The EFF (at least to me) tries to strike a balance between what is ideal and what is realistic. They don’t come up with perfect solutions, but honestly there aren’t any perfect solutions that would work in practice.