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Except these laws do not serve as a glue that binds people together.
They exist to allow monetary gain far outside reasonable bounds, unless you believe that dead people should be legally allowed to own things or allow corporations to own ideas for 90 years.
Ideas, once released, can not be controlled it's insanity to believe otherwise.
You cannot steal something that is not physical and can be replicated infinitely, at almost 0 cost.
Depends, you do subsidize the cable companies by helping provide the infrastructure that they transmit their product through.
I think it would be fair that they are require to offer everyone a basic set of channels.
I don't see it as wrong, as long as the law stays unreasonable, as it is now.
If the laws change, I may change my mind but until then I have no sympathy towards IP owners.
I agree that copywrites extend far too long I would suggest that the lifetime of the creator/s or 25 years which ever is longest would be fair