Your situation highlights my philosophical disagreement with Intellectual Property. I think, when you really analyze the basic motivations behind IP, they come

Your situation highlights my philosophical disagreement with Intellectual Property. I think, when you really analyze the basic motivations behind IP, they come down to 'It's the law of the jungle.' aka "Fuck you, pay me". There are lots of humane laws that take the exigencies of life into account, but there are also laws that the powerful have created to exploit the less powerful. A legal framework that excludes the poor from sharing the ideas of the powerful or wealthy is not an 'enlightened' law, and therefore I believe anything that can be done to fight it or weaken it's enforcement mechanisms is a mitzvah.