The copyright industries want to expand their rentier state to exert control at the network level. They want veto power over the presence of any copyrighted material on the internet. The only way to prevent this is to legalize a fundamental right to link.

Yes, that would be good. But the issue is that they CAN exert control - the government that is, at the behest of the lobbyists of the day, even if you legalize this specific thing.

We need to move to a Freenet model where it's nearly impossible to tell what you're doing. The system isn't working until political control is irrelevant. Free access to information is too critical to let anyone control.

They aren't stupid people, but they may be stupid as an entity. Perhaps whoever makes these decisions is under pressure from management to look busy, so they pursue these largely useless measures because they're easy work.

I'm thinking let them act like retards...

makes me remember freakonomics on "cobra effect": http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/10/11/the-cobra-effect-a-ne...

this move is mostly irrelevant and costly for them and I guess it only makes they look worse in the public eye... as most people are put off by this maneuvers, it's probably a service to the 'torrentfreak crowd'(which I'd say I'm included, even tho I barely use torrents), first step for revolution is getting the people's support...

(but, of course, when they're buying politics, laws, regulations it's actually worrysome ;t)