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I believe that laws should be made with society's benefit in mind. Internet is a new medium , and no one has proven yet which is better for the majority of the population - maintaining copyright law, or not maintaining it - because there's been no way to get hard data. Personally I believe copyright law stifles creativity, and currently the world would be better off with no copyright law at all (with advent of Internet and huge increase in the numbers of educated and intelligent people who want to create). I don't believe that artificially manipulating present situation with law, so a writer can get more money off his work, or that some business model is generating more income than it otherwise would is worth thwarting the ability of many other people to use the works in their own creations.
I write software for money myself, and I'm aware that in the world without copyright law the way I work would change considerably, but I have no doubts I'd get by somehow.
Assumptions that it will be better if copyright law continues to exist are unwarranted, and letting non-government agency spy on people in the name of those assumptions is a big mistake.
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