No, that's an economic decision you made to enter into a work-for-hire arrangement instead of selling your own product/service - whose assets you would own - an

No, that's an economic decision you made to enter into a work-for-hire arrangement instead of selling your own product/service - whose assets you would own - and you are now trying to foist that economic arrangement on other people who don't want to enter into it. Nope, it's a reality. The majority of people who work are not business or capital owners. It's a fact of capitalism which is not immutable. Well, excuse me for wanting to create and sell my own literary product. WTF. Then deal with the hard reality that being a writer isn't always profitable just as being a programmer isn't always profitable. The market does not promise any ROI for any vocation or enterprise. You have to see it through like the rest of us. It seems as if you propose establishing a more equal playing field by abolishing the economic incentive for capital owners to invest money in the production of cultural goods. Capital owners are the problem with our economy, yes. Otherwise I'm limited to economic damages which are a lot trickier to recover, as many infringers can hide behind shell companies and just let them go bankrupt. And yet the primary target of copyright infringement these days are kids who torrent the latest Taylor Swift album. I'm sorry if I'm not sympathetic to your cause when the actual infringers have no money of their own or little of it to give to you. In the end, you seem very much invested in keeping the status quo where it's impossible to achieve a practical method to recover losses. The current system is built with the assumption that one size fits all. The reality is that there is no one size fits all solution. If you want to recover losses from the teenager who torrented your work then figure out a monetization scheme. Don't go to a lawyer and bully a kid who probably doesn't even have a personal checking account. Figure out how to price it right for that kid. Otherwise, just get out of the market place because your reaction is like that of certain libertarians I've debated where they justify the killing of a kid who steals a stick of bubblegum from a news stand.