Are you saying that copyright should be abolished in conjunction with replacing it with a new system? Or that abolishing it altogether would be acceptable? I'm

Are you saying that copyright should be abolished in conjunction with replacing it with a new system? Or that abolishing it altogether would be acceptable? I'm not sure I can imagine that transition. Copyright (and the patent system) are fundamentally broken in the US, but I don't agree that perpetual copyright terms and SOPA follow naturally from any legal copyright system. I'm a believer in limited copyright actually encouraging innovation, and that includes with restrictions on sharing and freedom of speech (eg I publish a book, I don't believe it should be a form of protected speech to then make a copy of that book and distribute it. On the other hand, I also don't believe that should be a felony or that you owe damages of more money than you might make in your lifetime). Freedom of speech is already restricted in many ways, and not just in ways that a cynic would point out. None of us lives alone on this planet, which implies that we will have to make concessions in systems already without an optimal solution for all parties.