What if the canard of online piracy is really cynically used as a way to push for tighter copyright controls, not to cut down on piracy, but rather just as an end to itself?
In many fairs, whac-a-mole prints out tickets and if you get enough you redeem for a prize. Here the prize is ever greater degrees of control and ever eroding protections for fair use. Copyright terms forever minus a day with no fair use possible? Maybe that's the real prize they are going after.
