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Conversely, the RIAA is making its media available on a known, at-risk platform to attain distribution. They're not protecting their copyright sufficiently, and the copyrights should be revoked. I can't wait for ML to lower the barrier to entry for music to near nil. Make anyone a vocalist or instrumentalist and hose these assholes.
As much as I would like this to be true, copyright doesn't have to be defended in order to be kept. That's a very different law, trademarks. You can have your copyright infringed for decades before you try to prosecute the infringers, and the courts will still rule in your favour.
I could be wrong, but nascent technology in this field looks incredibly powerful.
I think this will happen with all media.