[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Copyright Trolls may be akin to ambulance chasers — but, that doesn't make copyright infringement a good thing. Creators of any sort of intellectual property have rights too. If there is no control over piracy, the motivation to create new intellectual property will diminish — to say nothing of the loss of the capital necessary to create the intellectual property.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If there is no control over piracy, the motivation to create new intellectual property will diminish — to say nothing of the loss of the capital necessary to create the intellectual property.

Not true.

You'd have a lot more creativity, it just wouldn't be owned by the government/corporate cartel.

It no longer requires a huge capital investment to publish a book or a music album.

Granting an artificial monopoly to big corporations just because they can buy legislation granting them that monopoly is criminal.

[muawiyah]

It is contented that it might be possible to diminish motivation to create new intellectual property, but where is the proof?

If the internet is used as an example of what really happens, it's pretty clear that the more writing space made available for people to write on the more writing will be done!

Frankly the age of "copyright" may well have come and gone. The Founders certainly never anticipated electronics.