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I think it's a general common agreement in that Nature fixed things as they should be and it's a model that needs to be followed.
Nature gave animals the so-called instincts - pre-defined subroutines defining the reaction of the animal under certain conditions. Fear, hungry, sex, all are instincts.
When one looks at his/her children play, s/he would notice immediately (no need to read puericulture books) that there is an early phase, where the child gives things to others. S/he shares what s/he has with anybody, even with pets. It's the second phase, coming right after the "I want it all" one.
This is the key - this is why Homo sapiens and not gorillas rule the Earth. Humans need society and share resources. This is how they managed to survive in conditions where any other animal would perish. Other "pack" animals, like wolves, have a sharing algorithm.
The concept of copyright, while initially correcting a major defficiency of the society, goes today against these instincts.
I repeat: the author (even more the publisher), got resources from the community (s/he did not pay for the education, gets it for free, paid from group's resources) but s/he wants not to give back.
Maybe this is where our end starts, as a species, I mean. Dinosaurs did not die all in the same day and daytime, it lasted a while, but the end was predictable - at least we see this now. Our successors in ruling Earth would probably say the same in 65 millions years: that's what perished them.
PS: parasites are organisms that thrive on host organisms (that is, they get something from them but give nothing back - if they would, it would have been called symbiosys).
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