I read recently in a newspaper article that the powers at be are going to make internet file sharing completely legal. the plan would make it legal for anyone to share music,movies and tv shows online as long as they paid a yearly $40 licence to compensate the media industries.

Such a move would stop the mass criminalization of the pubic as a whole, as nearly everyone that uses the internet in the modern age as committed a crime one way or another. Even by watching a music video on youtube that was not uploaded by the artists record company you have committed a crime in the current legal system’s eyes.

The fat cats have realised that they cant ban everyone from using the internet. So to make back some of the ‘lost’ revenue they have proposed this move in order to keep everyone happy and I truly agree with them! this is a far better idea than simply fining or banning the odd user in hope of scaring the whole world into falling into line.

This may sound like a bad thing to some but I can only see it as a positive thing! Soon the days of watching television and listening to the radio will be over as we know it and I say good! I never watch Tv anymore since I found out that I could watch whatever I like whenever I like.

So bring on the yearly licence. I would pay up to $100 per year to have unrestricted access to any media I please and I reckon that most people will feel the same way.