What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a different system for remunerating creators, which gets it the hell out of the face of the public (who were never aware of it to begin with in the pre-internet dead tree era). Unfortunately, the current copyright model is enshrined in international trade treaty law, making it almost impossible to work around.

We are, after all, homo economicus.

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

I do not click on random youtube videos.