Who has the rights to your mind?

illegally intellectual property such as music, The question of intellectual copyright has been raised lately in France. Scanning, (actually "spying" ) on people downloading films, books etc...and giving the approriate sanction for it. A n entire new "Netpolice" and "Cybernannies" would have been put into place for this gargantuan task!
Hell is paved with the best intentions...
I thought that artists should be finally protected and their creations with it. I do not agree that the result of your creativity, sweat, heartache and talent should be available for free to anyone, unless you decided so. Artists can if they wish give their creativity, time and talent for free, but unless they say so, we should not steal it.

Unfortunately, good intentions turned into a political debate, and people felt that it is the core of their very freedom, especially when you are secure in your home surfing the net, that was in jeopardy...and with this too, I agree. Artists complanin that the peope targetted are also their fans and that the net was a way for them to get to their public...cutting them off would kill their chance to get through the young generation...What to say, which side to lean on?! Both points are valid

TV programs such as Big Brother have slowly used people attraction to voyeurism and turn it against them: If you do not mind watching other people everyday life and interaction, if you fancy "reality shows" that makes you hair raised on your head..why shouldn't you be next to surrender your privacy? - For a real treat for your nerve, read Amelie Nothomb "Sulfuric Acid", that will provide you with a wide window on dystopia!

But this is sidetracking...Who has the right to your creativity, to your dreams and work? Everyone!, as long as they acknowledge that the work is yours and should remain so...but in another hand, spending an aweful lot of governement money to arbitrarely cut your internet connection off, on suspicion that you may have downloaded something illegally ,without having any mouth to defend yourself, is OTT...
How do we find a balance?. How do you teach in this fast world that not everything is for grab and that there is nothing as a "free lunch"?!
I think it comes with the respect. Respect for an artist, an author, a musician, a painter. If we learned more to respect one another, I am sure that it would improved our lives...

Just good old R-E-S-P-E-C-T!