Brains working towards machine consciousness

 I've just been reading Cory Doctorow's talk about the copyright treaty negotiations which have led directly or indirectly to France's new laws and the proposed one in the UK which not only introduces the "3 strikes rule" but also seems to me to authorise large media corporations to essentially grab the copyright of works for themselves.

Sadly, given the way we are governed, I doubt there is anything short of an armed revolution which would stop this from getting passed into law.