On: Technology to circumvent online copyright enforcement

[jrockway]

What about fair use?

It is theoretically legal for me to write an article about a song, and include a ten second clip of that song. It is also legal for another person to do the same thing, but with a different part of the song.

At some point, the entire song becomes downloadable, but without any party distributing it outside of their fair use rights.

Now what?

[extension → jrockway]

Now all of you are liable for infringement since what you did was clearly a convoluted yet deliberate scheme to distribute the song.

[jrockway → extension]

No, this all happened without organization. For any moderately popular song, this is likely to happen.