[HansTWN]

It is funny that none of those who believe in free slave work by all authors for the good of society ever answers the pivotal question: "Why should an author's work be different from any other person's?". Yes, you have the means to copy, but that doesn't mean you have the right to copy.

With you living in western societies (that produce no tangible goods anymore to speak off) you are seriously deluding yourselves. In the end the whole Western world will end up working for China, because the West produces the ideas and Asia makes the physical products. I pity your children. You are destroying their only opportunity. Since you claim ideas are worthless, they will not be able to make a living.

If you believe that everything should be free, that would be a very different society from what we live in. That would be called communism, everyone gets what he or she needs. The problem usually is that such societies never produce enough for everyone's needs because there is no incentive to create or produce.