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I think there are some very intelligent and sincere proponents of copyright reform, among them Cory Doctorow and Lawrence Lessig. The part about saving the species was a bit pretentious, but the absolute principle of property has allowed for unnecessary suffering in the world. For instance, pharmaceutical companies have used western governments and the World Trade Organization to prevent the prevention of cheap and generic drugs for the treatment of aids. Western governments have also withheld foreign aid when African nations have used information obtained on how to make drugs for aids because it violates the patents of the pharmaceutical companies. Even though Africans couldn't possibly afford more expensive aids drugs, pharmaceutical companies still do all they can, with government backing (or is it the other way around) to deny the production of cheap drugs and the sharing of information on the principle of property. Instead, In their quest to save Africa, Western countries spend billions on drugs that Africans could make themselves for a fraction of the cost.
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