The point is not "consuming things for free", the point is neutering "the Biz".
I for one wouldn't mind to lose Hollywood as an industry, or Broadway, or Silicon Valley...
All of these industries are way too big and over-influential in all aspects of our lives, and leave us without any chance of a more human-scale alternative to counteract.
I mean, how many TV networks are owned by Disney? Do you really think that all that lobbying is just to keep people away from watching copies of Mickey's Fantasia?
> Disney is not stopping you from making your own home movies.
Excuse me? What if I want to adapt some Hans Christian Andersen story over 150 years old and get a cease and desist from Disney? Even if their adaptations are older than many people alive today.
It's about all the other movies that don't get to be financed because of the 19th re-hash of Star Wars (or Marvel movie, or live-action remake of Lion King/Aladdin/Pocahontas/Dumbo/Bambi) that is going to be released and it's "guaranteed" to make another billion dollars in the box office.
It's about having two small kids who get bombarded with products from their franchises on every media outlet.
It's about them using their movies and works to promote whatever ideological propaganda that gets them in favor with government.
Film funding is not a zero sum game. There are lots of other places to secure funding. I've seen about 20 new indie films already this year.
The rest of your comment is unrelated and somewhat unhinged, and appears to be going off into a general complaint about advertising, it has nothing to do with copyright.
> I've seen about 20 new indie films already this year.
Good for you! Now go ask the other 99% of the population what they watched this year?
> The rest of your comment (...) has nothing to do with copyright.
It has to do with concentration of power, of which copyright (and any kind of "intellectual property") is one of the favorite instruments from big corporations.
I also used to fall for this "people are free to choose" techno-libertarian bullshit. The problem is that it is not in the interest of all the corporations for you to choose responsibly. They make the game so complex and so energy consuming that eventually people break in one way or another.
"Copyright enforcement" only benefits the big players and the corporate world.
But that's not true, if you didn't have copyright the biggest one would just copy everything and nobody could do anything about it. With copyright you have a way to sue them for ripping you off.
I for one wouldn't mind to lose Hollywood as an industry, or Broadway, or Silicon Valley...
All of these industries are way too big and over-influential in all aspects of our lives, and leave us without any chance of a more human-scale alternative to counteract.
I mean, how many TV networks are owned by Disney? Do you really think that all that lobbying is just to keep people away from watching copies of Mickey's Fantasia?