No -- I'm writing as if the current form of copyright law was: 1. roughly inevitable, given continued support and enforcement of copyright 2. inevitably going

No -- I'm writing as if the current form of copyright law was: 1. roughly inevitable, given continued support and enforcement of copyright 2. inevitably going to result in behavior like suing teenagers Actually, I'm not even writing as if that's the case. You're just correctly guessing that the RIAA suing teenagers is a bad result of copyright law, and assigning that to me as some kind of guess at the original purpose of the law. I'm really writing as if it's the case that copyright law is a violation of individual rights, thus placing the burden of someone else's poor business model on people who have no ethical imperative to bear that burden.