This is a complex issue. While I believe copying without compensation is bad, and not something to feel proud of, I also understand the position of a Chinese o

This is a complex issue. While I believe copying without compensation is bad, and not something to feel proud of, I also understand the position of a Chinese or a person from Ghana that have to work 15 times more to be able to access the same item than an American. The West has used countries like Ghana to dump technological trash that make children get malformations and cancer. Think on this for a moment: what does 20 dollars means for you, now multiply it x15. Now if you want to access an important resource for you or your family like a book, what do you do? You pirate it. Most of the people in this world economic power is closer to the people of Ghana that to the people in California. Copyright is out of control, it should be like patents 20 years, with the extensions it is becoming eternal and making impossible to reuse any work legally.