[EvanAnderson]

While I share your amusement that the publishing industry is hoist with their own petard creators will inevitably be targeted as a result of this decision. That really troubles me. I see this decision as a weapon for the publishing industry.

"Pirates" have been held-up as being publishers' enemies. I think this decision will serve to make independent creators a bigger target. Machine learning-based analysis of music along w/ this decision will create a distopia where independent musicians are hit with automatically-generated copyright infringement extortion letters. It'll be similar to the letters "downloaders" received a few years ago, except that the infringement will be the act of creation rather than "consumption".

My hope is the lunacy of this decision will spark more conversation about reigning United States copyright back into some semblance of its original form. I've been pining for that conversation since the creation of the DMCA, though, and it shows no sign of coming. The litigation wasteland that this decision will create might make that happen, but, then again, it might just serve to cement the idea that you can't be a legitimate content creator w/o going thru the traditional publishing system (and all the rent-seeking that comes with it).