Andrea made some eye-opening points on in The Art of Asking, people should be able to express anything they want and in anyway especially if it benefits them in the long run. Giving the people they want to be free and express how they feel is amazing and a huge step to peace but this also leads me to the thoughts of copy right and how sometimes being free and open about your work and thoughts can be bad in the long run.
I have watched, my older brother takes about two years to figure out his own business and what he wants to do. I also read on people who took years and struggled to write a book that was published. So, I can only imagine the pain and hurt if somebody stole what was written. So, I would say I don’t think favorably on copyright infringement.
And for people who say well it’s a big company etc. etc. no harm done they have all the money. You must step back and realize at some point somebody probably flatbed broke wrote the thing and it may become popular but at the time at some time it was a meaningful piece of work for somebody getting by. And every time you steal you make it harder for the next person to make a dime.
And for the people who think it’s OK because it’s only one copy out of millions you have to remember, of all the things that you see, many more never see the light of day so you think you’re doing no harm but really that then becomes an extra impact against all the people trying to succeed, and without your contribution due to theft, you raise the cost on everybody and that loss of revenue becomes one less person’s dream that may have been realized. But Copyright law is extremely flawed. It’s very easy to abuse, and the public domain is basically useless after extensions of the law.
for example Currently an item goes into public domain after the lifetime of the author, + 75 years.
So if you write a book at 18 and die at 100 years old, you legally own the rights to that book for 157 YEARS.