I think that could well be the case in reality--but you wouldn't know it from most discussions on the topic, and I don't think that's how people people form the

I think that could well be the case in reality--but you wouldn't know it from most discussions on the topic, and I don't think that's how people people form their initial views, or why they continue to maintain logically incorrect arguments in their own minds. In some respects, I think that some copyright denialists behave similarly to those who try to argue that the U.S. has no power to tax incomes because of various technicalities in the ratification of the appropriate constitutional amendment [1]. These people do not hold their to their positions because they are lawyers. They hold to them because they don't want to pay income tax. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_Sixteenth_Amendment_arguments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_Sixteenth_Amendme...