On a more serious level, it's hard to make a decision one way or another about the pirate parties. On one hand, I agree that copyright crushes innovation, but on the other hand, it also breeds higher quality efforts. Look what this forum could do without the Final Fantasy VII copyright. On the other hand, would there even be a Final Fantasy VII without copyright to protect the efforts invested in it? Probably not.
The current system is a reward system. You work your ass off, you get paid money. It works. How many companies would still be pumping out games today if they had to make them for free? People need to eat. Or even worse, imagine games with advertisements periodically breaking the momentum. Sponsored gaming companies. I don't see that working out well.
In conclusion, yeah copyright is a crap concept, but it's the lesser of two evils in my opinion. sh*t rolls downhill. We can argue all day that it's only the top CEOs or whatever who are being hurt by piracy, but they're going to keep their money no matter what. They don't take smaller cuts because you steal from them, they'd rather just start firing people to save costs.
On the flipside, picture a world without copyright. Basically, take every A-list game and toss it. Only play indie games. Yeah, it'd be like that. People would have no income from developing and thus have to hold a job. Holding a job takes time, and leaves want for spare time. All this is less time to develop a game. Teams wouldn't come together like they would with the lure of money.
And mind you, this is only concerning games. It's not even the tip of the iceberg when it comes to copyright. Our ENTIRE CIVILIZATION is based on a community, reward-based system. You put up with crap 8 hours a day so that in the end, you are given more luxury and better products that can only come from a massive team effort. Sure, you can get rid of that, but then you'd have to kiss so many modern conveniences goodbye.
Copyright sucks, but it could be a hell of a lot worse. Maybe there's a solution out there, but it's not abolishing copyright completely. There still needs to be that reward.
