Yup. Copyright and intellectual property are utterly absurd. It was created whole cloth as a legal fiction to prop up an industry that the legislature thought

Yup. Copyright and intellectual property are utterly absurd. It was created whole cloth as a legal fiction to prop up an industry that the legislature thought was worth propping up. If you think about it, if search engines didn’t exist, and you invented and marketed one today, you’d be sued into oblivion. Same goes for public lending libraries.