There are people who ultimately liberate works and ensure that they are forever preserved, regardless of the wishes of the copyright holders (some of which woul

There are people who ultimately liberate works and ensure that they are forever preserved, regardless of the wishes of the copyright holders (some of which would like to think that they have the moral right to withhold copyrighted works from public access). Unfortunately, those people are labeled "pirates" and demonized by the proponents of lengthy IP protection. The fact of the matter is, regardless of an individual "pirate's" motivations, piracy is preservation. The most widely preserved libraries of media and software are the ones that are the most widely pirated.