Copyright should be exactly like any other contract and should be treated as a breach of contract if you infringe on it, if you signed it. If you're selling you

Copyright should be exactly like any other contract and should be treated as a breach of contract if you infringe on it, if you signed it. If you're selling your work to millions of people you're probably making a decent amount of money. The difficulty of enforcing millions of contracts at the same time are nothing but a market way to tax your profits. The less you sell, the easier it will be to pinpoint the culprit and sue him. As a creator you're in your right to sue whoever breached your contract with them and redistributed / copied your work / didn't respect your conditions, but is it going to be cost efficient (especially if you consider the marketing side of piracy)? Someone pirating your content without entering into a contract with you is not breaching any contract and, despite being highly immoral, is not doing anything wrong. The original copy must have been sourced from somewhere though, so I would consider it fair to put the entire cost to whoever breached the contract first. If as a society we create regulations that allow big corporations and their friends in the government to infringe on people's freedom, we're not only losing our freedom but also increasing inequality.