Every time a judge does something like this I have some hope that we will move past the current copyright legislation to something more appropriate for the digital age.<p>I'm sure that copyright has had its use, and in many ways still has uses today. But I'm also sure that the time of 'easy money' by the simple act of reproduction will come to an end, and as far as I'm concerned that can't happen fast enough.<p>Copyright, like any tool is a two edged sword, and the one edge has been systematically blunted whereas the other has been systematically sharpened. There was a balance where there is now a very strong imbalance and judges like this help to at least temporarily restore that balance, until we can move past the current implementation.<p>I hope it will happen somewhere in the next 50 years, sooner is better. The closer we are to a balance the bigger the chance that we can move on. So thanks to this judge.
Could this be? A brief flicker of hope for the fact that maybe tech-savvy judges might be able to do something sane?<p>I have to wonder, though, how long it'll be before everyone starts just opening their wifi as a "it wasn't me" defense. And how long that will last.