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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9695775" data-attributes="member: 907">Look dude, I used to be a member of the Swedish Pirate Party back when we had MEPs, but even we never argued for the complete abolition of copyright, only lowering its duration to something reasonable, a wider definition of fair use, and not prioritizing copyright enforcement over all other legal concerns. Copyright serves a useful purpose by providing a means by which artists can sell their works without others undercutting them. And artists that can sell their work can, if they're lucky, become professional artists and thus focus on improving their craft instead of doing their art in off hours.Now, would it be nice if people didn't have to sell their labor in order to get money to buy food and shelter and other things? Sure! I'm all for fully automated luxury space communism. But that is not the society we have, and it doesn't seem like a society we are heading toward, and pulling out the rug below artists trying to make a buck is not the right place to start smashing capitalism.</blockquote>