What the RIAA and 14 other groups are telling the US Copyright Office is simple: The 19-year-old Digital Millennium Copyright Act isn't working.

Yes, we all understand it isn't working, and the reason it isn't working is because you're trying to sell a product that is infinitely reproducible and instantly transportable around the world for $0. And you want government to strong-arm ISPs to waste their time implementing filter systems, castrating the Internet at the same time) to enact this cockamamie scheme, which won't actually prevent piracy anyway? Who do you think is going to pay for all this bullshit? I'm guessing not you.

The DMCA needs to be done away with. Even if the doomsday prophets are correct and it results in the decimation of the content industry, so be it. We have, for too long, treated this industry like it's some sacred cow that can't be killed. But if its business model is outdated, then let it die. Isn't that what free market capitalists say they want anyway? To let the market decide?