But on this issue of the $23,000, my question is whether in this desire to go after the isoHunts and the peer-to-peer traffickers we're actually going after university research and saying that if we allow that student to keep that case note for more than five days, we're going to destroy our entire creative empire. It seems to me that this is a load of hokum. But it could also create a lot of problems, because people are going to make copies anyway, because they're going to actually need to have copies to defend their theses. A person can't say, “Well, professor, I did have it, but I had to give it back after five days.”
Could we not streamline this process a little more to ensure that the intent of limiting copying and the protection of copyright remains in place, while this needless intervention in the real world is just taken out?