i was fighting lack of sleep when i wrote what you're referring to haha. and i agree, people do confuse bad implementations with the core concept. an example would be communism.

however, my argument is not that copyright is bad, instead, its that copyright has gotten out of hand in regard to what should be allowed to be copyrighted, for how long and fair use.

the entertainment industries want a more and more restricted way of providing content, to the point of you having no control of how the content you purchase is delivered/utilized. and they want this control to be indefinite. they don't care about our view of things, they're a business and business is about money. this is why a good concept like copyright is being abused.

perhaps i used a term that is too in-general. when i say we pay too much for things i mean that we are ridiculously over charged. in the context of online piracy, should you pay $20 for a DVD that costs pennies to be mass-produced or download the "DVD" for free? its a moral and philosophical dilemma involving the current state of our civilization.

while it might sound silly saying this about a DVD or music or software, it doesn't sound silly at all when you realize this problem also applies to food, health care, education.

copyright is just another thing they abuse to get as much money as they can out of you.

and more to think about, when does copyright become censorship?

the following quote is funny but very true

i'm not suggesting that we abolish capitalism. should we one day figure out how best to live without it (like riding a bike without training wheels, aka the rich, to drag us down), the world will obviously benefit greatly, until then, we should recognize capitalism's problems and compensate for them.

if content was available at very close to the costs needed to originally produce it and ridiculous controls weren't placed on that content, piracy would be, or close to, non existent.