But don't they intend to "secure" copyright protection?
That's the crux of the laws for copyright: prohibiting circumvention of the copyright "controls". So the copyright issue is argued as though it were one of security. They know that if were "only" about money they couldn't act so self-righteous.
We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists. -- [link|http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/opinion/BIO-FRIEDMAN.html|Thomas Friedman]