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Comment Re:If you want to understand their view (Score 2, Insightful) 813

Just like culture and human happiness advances when artistic works are freely enjoyed, spread, and built upon to create new works.

Copyrights exist to encourage artistic expression, not suppress it. There's little incentive to spend your life creating art if you can't make money from it. Without copyrights art would all but disappear; would-be artists would be forced to spend their time making a living some other way.

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