A recently updated news story on the BBC news website entitled “UK will not legislate on piracy” caught my attention this week. File sharing is a big problem for the music industry and I can safely say that something obviously needs to be done about it. What made me laugh wasn’t the fact that there won’t be any law changes regarding this, it’s a very difficult problem to tackle, but the only comment in the entire article:

“We can’t have a system where we’re talking about arresting teenagers in their bedrooms.”

That is the only thing actually quoted from the Intellectual Property minister (there’s a position for that!?), David Lammy. Now I don’t know that much about law, but it is specifically the teenagers in their bedrooms that are perpetrating the crime. There’s no overlord. File sharing websites have their arseholes covered with 6 feet of reinforced concrete, and they’re the only other agent in this. So what’s required is either a major overhaul in the legislative system, or something to be done about the bedroom kleptomaniacs.

As far as I can see, it’s a deadlock, piracy continues to thrive and there’s nothing anyone can do in our current political system. Now, if we lived in a despotic regime or a communist state, this problem would be easily solved.

Democracy is too complicated.

Keep it simple kids, either share equally with no concept of money (which would work in a developed western country unlike Russia or Cuba (joke, in case there are any people with a sense of humour failure (if you are genuinely offended by that vague statement, kiss my ass, you’re not as mentally developed as us enlightened liberal patriots (are enlightened liberal patriots possible?)))) or let one person have all the fun.