> It creates a situation in which every individual using the internet violates, or benefits from the violation of, civil law every day. That's the problem of t

> It creates a situation in which every individual using the internet violates, or benefits from the violation of, civil law every day. That's the problem of the internet, not of intellectual property. And it would be easily solved by technology in the near future. > It creates a situation in which individuals cannot be trusted to run code on hardware they own. No it doesn't. It's not a matter of trust, it's a matter of pirating material, which is theft. > It creates the conditions for censorship on online platforms. No it does not. People will not be banned from expressing their opinion online if their opinion doesn't contain anything copyrighted. > Just end copyright. The idea that software, music, movies, books and so on will cease to exist is a complete farce. What is a complete farce is people that don't understand that without the economic motivation, most people don't do things. Piracy has created huge problems in the past for home computers, for example. It was impossible to monetize the creation of a good game, although most people have played those games, due to piracy, which killed a lot of game software houses around 25-30 years ago. > I'll keep writing software. You will too. Most of us here will. Yeah right. Would Red Dead Redemption 2 be made with such an economic model? no, it would not. Who would have funded it? no one. > I think we've seen enough damage from that already over the last few years. What damage? there isn't any damage whatsoever from copyright.