The laws effectively codify commercial agreements between the public (who gets very little representation, IMHO) and various moneyed interests. As they had the

The laws effectively codify commercial agreements between the public (who gets very little representation, IMHO) and various moneyed interests. As they had the better bargaining spot, I'm not really inclined to give them anything we did not specifically agree to. It's sad that their response to imaginative new technology is "we didn't think to outlaw that, so we're changing the rules." Might as well be a "right to profit" in my view.