Copyrights

[JohnH]

At the time, I wasn't sure if John agrees with the following or not:

In any society, law represents an agreement about the rules that will be enforced. No law is exactly what everyone wants it to be. But if we each feel free to steal whatever we think should not be under copyright, that's unjust.

I disagree with calling it “stealing”. I consider it a legal infraction, like rolling thru a stop sign, filing one’s taxes late, or overstaying a visa. It is certainly “illegal”, but it is not some grave moral sin.

Copyright laws are mostly a result of corporate media lobbyists buying off Congress.