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There seems to be a lot of mingling here of the way things ought to be and the way they are.

Reminds me of a list of "copyright myths" I saw in school.

The first nine were, "you think you can do this simple thing, this reasonable thing, or have any freedom whatsoever? SCREW YOU."

The tenth claimed it was a myth that copyright levied oppressive burdens on the consumer.

Lesson: With any type of intellectual property protection, you can usually just presume it works in the most totally disgusting way imaginable.

Laws operating in a grotesque and unfair way is hardly confined to intellectual property law.

there is. i have no idea how things actually are.

but laws should not contradict common sense.

But they often do.