And now for the ‘command economy’ leftists who meet in a back alley...

What’s always been true to a degree, it regardless of the delusions the artistic have about how a society can be run, they hate to be “collectivized” themselves.

EU Rota: Elites Howlin’ Wolf.

«A French government crackdown on digital piracy backfired Thursday as lawmakers rebelled by endorsing amendments to legalize the online sharing of music and movies instead of punishing it.»

On hearing of the announcement that property rights would not be enforced, the musicians’ union, whose members are normally what we think of as the core of the morally repugnant elite in that it’s wealthy members idolize socialism were rightly disturbed. Rightly disturbed in a right-wing kind of way:

«The proposed royalties duty amounts to a "Sovietization" of the arts, said Bernard Miyet, president of the French music composers' and publishers' organization SACEM.

"You're talking about an administered price, set by a commission without regard to the music and film economy," Miyet said.»

Yes, they are. And so was the membership, generally, dreaming of this when it came to everyone else.

Miyet has long fought this one with the GATT as a “roving ambassador for privacy issues” to the U.N., and is rather sincere. His statement points out several things though – that the GATT (and by extension, the UN,) permitted the value of an artists work to decay by not paying much attention to copyright issues when it came to anyone, and that an international body can’t accomplish something that national laws and private organizations can do better on their own.

All the fits of badly thought out “good intentions” in the EU, and some of its’ member governments risks turning them into miniature UNs, only more dangerous. They can enforce their lunacy with the instruments of government and not just an imaginary body of undocumented and undemocratic international law.