> The mainstream interpretation most certain is that copyright is to protect creators, not distributors. That is certainly the idealized, simplified narrative

> The mainstream interpretation most certain is that copyright is to protect creators, not distributors. That is certainly the idealized, simplified narrative that most everyone will have been taught these days, but in terms of how copyright actually came about, way back when, it is largely a case of post-hoc rationalization. Hence the link: majority opinion doesn't change reality, only its perception.