“Let me rephrase it. Why should I as a taxpayer, have to pay for it?”
The right to the due process of the law. Look it up, it’s in the constitution. Without the constitution, property owners could hunt down and shoot these thieves.
So, the tax money is used to ensure that the due process of the law is maintained.
Due process, or doo-doo process?
The constitutional intent is not primarily to protect private property in intellectual works (which can be indefinitely duplicated without costing the creator any additional labor) but to ensure the progress of the useful arts.
People who sit on their copyrights or patents should be excluded for that very reason. It should be use it or lose it. Because the primary intent with respect to such works is not private property.