I think your question of who to side with is interesting and I’m going to sidestep it entirely because there are second order effects to consider. I couldn’t h

I think your question of who to side with is interesting and I’m going to sidestep it entirely because there are second order effects to consider. I couldn’t help but think about your quote > people on the set who weren't millionaire celebrities and might be living paycheck to paycheck Do you think that’s a healthy situation? Where you have Tom cruise, who yells because he has tremendous empathy for his workers who could starve because of their actions? Why is it that they are so vulnerable to piracy when the captains of that industry don’t have to worry about starving? From the text in the linked article > DMCA made a digital action a crime that had never been a crime when done in analog — publishing technological know-how to improve and repair devices that we own. A farmer in Iowa cannot have her tractor repaired by her mechanic, she has to go to John Deere. Because of DCMA. > Big Tractor says farmers have no right to access the copyrighted software that controls every facet of today’s equipment, even to repair their own machines. That’s the exclusive domain of authorized dealerships. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-05/farmers-fight-john-deere-over-who-gets-to-fix-an-800-000-tractor https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-05/farmers-f... We have broken systems making other systems broken. It’s like a virus. Maybe Tom Cruise should yell at Paramount and John Deere from standing so close. The situation we have is that institutions are seeking (and getting) preferential treatment in society. This has been pushed by corporations and supported by government. Maybe Section 1201 isn’t an awful law, but the fact is that the little people it’s supposed to protect didn’t get a voice when it was drafted, they may have gotten lip service, but they were not listed to. We have just kept our incumbent industries alive, kept the systems that deprive them around and make life worse for the little people.