[HansTWN]

Schex, you so brazenly assume that your will is the will of the people. And you pretend to be the knight in shining armor, while defending the "people's right" to bully authors and publishers into submission and force them to work for free for the "public good". And you quote some excesses in copyright (like the 70+ rule and the Disney case) to argue that it should all be invalidated. All this so that some people can get around paying a few dollars to reward authors and others involved for their hard work. Clearly Itunes, Amazon, and others show that you are a small minority.

Besides, when the US was founded only about 1% of the population (male, white landowners) had the right to vote. And a number of the men who participated in writing the constitution were slave owners. So, while I greatly value the US constitution, I don't think that all their values are relevant for today. And they could not have foreseen today's environment. So perfect for all times, the will of all the people in the territory, back then? Definitely not, which is why there are so many amendments.

Without copyright law we would have the "high school yard law". Everybody just takes what they want from those who can't defend themselves. Which is exactly what you are promoting.