Something rotten is in the state of America. Its name is copyright law. This little baby causes musicians, consumers, and unknowing standers-by all manner of big problems. It's not like the basic idea behind copyright law is inherently bad.... on the contrary, if someone makes a song, it should belong to them and they should be allowed to profit off of it. But the problem is that our copyright law is based completely on profiting off of whatever you copyrighted. Because of this desire to profit, we decide that we can sue people for as much as we damn well please (profiting more from this as well) if they happened to possibly take away any of our profit. There doesn't even have to be proof that they took away profit, just proof that they COULD have taken away profit.
So maybe the problem here isn't copyright law. Maybe the problem is that we are too focused on profit- we are too much a consumerist nation. If we were completely secure in how we were living already, having no desire to make more money and get more stuff, why would we care so much about people taking our profits? And why would people take our profits, if they are content with how they are living? America needs to change what the dream is. The dream shouldn't be a new car, a house with a white picket fence, 2.5 children, etc. The dream should be happiness with what you have. If a whole nation, especially one as important as ours, is happy and content, we would become a poster child for every nation to follow in order to reach global joy.
But this will never happen. Consumerism is like heroin- it feels great. But it is also horrible for you, and once you get on it, you can never really go away from it.
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