Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties

"The copyright monopoly debate has gotten exactly nowhere since the days of Napster. There's still a copyright industry that insists on control of the net in the name of lost profits. But what does this do to the net? More to the point, why are we letting a literal cartoon
industry have any say at all in regulation of our most important pieceof infrastructure?

In this presentation, Rick Falkvinge, founder of the Swedish and first Pirate Party, examines how the entire copyright industry position is a red herring, which is (or should be) completely irrelevant to policymaking on net issues. He brings up the concept of Analog Equivalent Rights, and painfully points out that some of the most
crucial civil liberties of our parents are currently not being passed on to our children, because doing so would interfere with profits of entertainment companies.

There's nothing wrong with profit as such. But no entrepreneur should get to dismantle civil liberties just because they can't make money otherwise."