Proposals for action

File-sharing is simply not something for which people should be punished. When you have bought your CD, it should be YOURS, and you should be able to do whatever you want with it. Copyright is an infringement of basic property rights - it puts restrictions on what you can do with YOUR property. Non-profit file-sharing should simply be allowed, and commercial file-sharing should be allowed 15 years after the publication of the original work.

The following are two proposals for action:

1. Civil disobedience. We need to do this in public: hand out CDs for free in public. If the police reacts, and arrests people, then public sympathy would more likely be on our side.
2. Protests, campaigning, letter-writing. I do not mean the U.S. Congress or any other part of government. I mean the multitudes of institutions or people who simply think that file-sharing is somehow is a problem, and do not even consider the people who oppose copyright law. We need to persuade the small people first before we tackle the big institutions.