As a plantation owner might have complained, it's like saying, "My livelihood doesn't depend on slaves, so I'll feel free to 'free' yours." Admittedly, copyrig

As a plantation owner might have complained, it's like saying, "My livelihood doesn't depend on slaves, so I'll feel free to 'free' yours." Admittedly, copyright is probably less harmful than slavery overall (and certainly is far less so on an individual level), but the analogy seems pretty good: slavery wasn't made illegal until it was already economically untenable, too.