I'd have to agree that there is adequate protection under existing copyright laws. At issue is the question of how to properly enforce them on the internet. Generally, ISPs will take action against sites, on their service, when a complaint is filed by the copyright owner. They usually won't do anything if the complaint is filed by somebody else. The problem with the net is that it is so pervasive and has created a culture (or at least fostered what was already there) that believes everything ought to be free and doesn't usually concern itself with copyrights. Fair use is very restrictive and was mostly intended for reviews and scholarly works where a few quotes or images were used as examples in what is otherwise a completely original treatise. Fair use is not putting up a page with favorite images culled from the net or scanned from magazines.