If I bought torrentfreak.info, copied everything from the site, and slapped some ads on it, would the owners of torrentfreak.com come after me? If they believe all of the garbage being posted on their site, they won't, but in reality, the users would probably try to DoS my site and give excuse after excuse as to why this is SO much different than piracy.
This also reminds me of the GNU license. When someone takes GNU software and violates the license, it's "stealing". Violating the copyright is "freedom". I've even seen it here in HN (the Thesis theme is a good example of this).
I'm saving my money for the day when copyrights and patents are abolished. I will sit there and wait for a small company to release something good and then destroy them because I have more resources, capital, and connections in the industry to get it to market (the exact same product/idea) before they do.
I see a parallel between this and Bitcoin. Everyone thought it would be a great idea to have a decentralized monetary system without banks. We are repeating history and seeing the many reasons banks are important after all.
I predict that if we ever do attempt to abolish copyrights or patents that we will slowly learn the painful lesson as to why they are important.
"If somebody had written a dystopic novel in the 1980s illustrating how some subjects had been forbidden, and if you would speak about them on the phone, a voice would pop in and say, “You have mentioned a forbidden subject. This has been noted. Please refrain from discussing forbidden subjects"
Does this mean we should also get rid of labor unions? They prevent many companies from automating many positions for the sole purpose of inflating/guaranteeing someone a wage.
It's okay. I'm a developer and I don't care about piracy. Sites/people like are going to slowly push most software businesses to some sort of service. Internet connections and computers are getting faster every day. The end result? You will now be paying a monthly fee forever as opposed to a flat-fee..and there's no way to pirate it.