“It’s quite clear that we’ve lost the battle over hearts and minds for compliance with copyright law, and a law is only good as the society that’s prepared to accept it.”
“We may now need to accept that times have changed, that society now places a different value on what it is that we all do,” Barnett continued, suggesting that allowing people to share digital copies of content “within a certain threshold” would be “acceptable collateral damage for the wider health of the online media industry”.
