>Copyright is not an entitlement, but rather an explicit bargain with society. Of course it is. The notion that we would buy anything at all vs. outright takin

>Copyright is not an entitlement, but rather an explicit bargain with society. Of course it is. The notion that we would buy anything at all vs. outright taking what we want from others is representative of an explicit bargain with society. If you want to throw out property rights and start from scratch then, sure, we can dispense with this entire discussion posthaste. >When the law does not respect the people, the people will not respect the law. That sounds noble, but there's clearly a difference between advocating change and making up your own laws. But, beyond this, we're talking about an attitude of consumer entitlement, as if creators literally shouldn't have rights to their own creations. Read other comments on this thread. >If the producer wants to "own" the content itself, the only way to do that is to lock it away in a vault, never attempting to license or sell it at all. I earnestly can't tell what this comment is supposed to mean. Are we advocating that no one ever create anything or simply that their punishment for attempting to derive economic value from their creations is to have that value outright taken from them?