On what basis do you justify laws which illegalize socially acceptable behaviors, and why do you start what people are entitled to at the law?
Surely the law should follow society, rather than society following the law.
Surely the law should follow society, rather than society following the law.
Despite what we all may wish would be the case, it's not socially acceptable to deprive rights holders and content producers of the financial value of their rights/content. The notion of rights to content takes primacy over the notion of streaming UFC 500 or whatever they're up to now.
Not that there aren't first principles to evolve laws from, but those first principles are very bare, and most of what we decide people should do, and most of the rights we grant (key word) to persons or entities are decided by interpretations of situation based on what we want society to be shaped like.
This is not to say that the government ought to serve as business's proxy in all cases.