'Internet Piracy'

The next section in Lessig's "Free Culture" online forum, he states that there has been a war against "piracy" and copyright laws. "A person may use the copy by playing it, but he has no right to rob the author of the profit." (Pg.17) And that is exactly true, It is harder for music artists for example, to sell their albums and make profits when there is so much illegal downloading going around now-a-days. But copyright laws cover a vast majority of things, not just music. You see it happen all the time in plagiarism, with kids copying essay stories they find online, people making fake art works or clothes and shoes. We see it happen everyday and the sad part about it is that, "the law's role is less and less to support creativity, and more and more to protect certain industries against competition." (Pg.19)