The problem is you&#x27;re right, but you&#x27;re not in good company.<p>I want copyright too, and for pretty much the same reasons as you. But right now supporting &quot;copyright&quot; means you&#x27;re taking the same side as assholes who insists on a term of 70 years after the death of the author, or more. Some people even at HN think copyright ought to have infinite duration. It means you&#x27;re on the same side as those who want to send people to prison or put them in the poorhouse for putting a video on Youtube. The same side as jerks who want to deploy bots all across the web to indiscriminately take down content whether it infringes or not, and who wheel and deal with distribution channels when the draconian laws they bribe governments to pass aren&#x27;t enough. Seriously, <i>fuck these people</i>.<p>The political climate in much of the world eschews nuance on basically any issue you can name, and copyright is no exception. I want reasonable copyright terms of ten to twenty years from publication and to wipe my ass with the DMCA. If I can&#x27;t have that, and if the choice is between copyright maximalists and those who would abolish copyright completely, I&#x27;ll support shit-canning the idea altogether. It might not be the most fiscally or culturally sound solution, but it at least shows a basic understanding of how human culture even works, which I can&#x27;t say for the maximalists.