I agree with you. We live in an entitlement society where people expect everything free. It sickens me the way today’s kids think that everything should be given to them without working for it, or compensating the people who worked for it. Their music, their movies, their healthcare.
That's not what I'm arguing — my argument is that lifetime of the author plus 70 years
is not what the founders had in mind when they gave the federal government the power To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; — I think they would be horrified at how the copyright (and worse, patents) are used to prevent the progress of science and useful arts under threat of the law. (One incident was the RIAA trying to sue a man [professor, IIRC] who was sharing a file containing his own work that had a similar name
to something that was copyrighted.)