Different people have different goals for the laws. For a sane comparison, you should look at the most laudable goals, otherwise it's going to be a fruitless discussion, trying to divine the "real" reason behind copyright laws.
For a sane comparison, you should look at the most laudable goals
I don't think this is self evident. One cannot understand the current state of copyright without also understanding the less than laudable goals of some of the media conglomerates.
> Different people have different goals for the laws. For a sane comparison, you should look at the most laudable goals
I couldn't disagree more. This makes you a simpleton who's excessively vulnerable to baptists-and-bootleggers type efforts. Don't ever support legislation (or anything else!) because it's labeled with a goal; attaching a goal to something is free.
For a sane view of laws, you should look at the effects. What people say they want the law to do just isn't relevant compared to what it actually does.
