Copyright laws; the new form of Book Burning
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Lol, lmao even.
At best, you have the Statue of Anne which was supposed to stop big (((publishing houses))) from printing and selling copies of books, brought to them by authors, for their own profit. That didn't work because big organizations will always be able to use laws against small organizations or individuals. All it did was solidify the market model of "intellectual property", which clearly doesn't work without special government monopolies.
Do we need copyright law at all?
Do youtubers care? They get money almost immediately and, generally, reposters only get away with it so long as fans don't realize what they're doing; if they know, they'll use the original channel.
Do movie/game studios care? Yes, but fuck em, they haven't made anything worthwhile in decades. They squat on their IPs (that they didn't create) and use them to push political narrarives. Copyright law enables this, rather than incentivises them to make new works. If we didn't have copyright laws, we would have definitely seen a decent Star Wars movie (made by actual fans) in the last 10 years.
How about smaller authors/musicians? Doesn't seem to make much difference. They rarely make money off direct purchases; it's all donations and merch.
The "buy a physical copy of my work" model was never tenable and the internet has shown there were always better alternatives. Copyright law obfuscated these alternatives and allowed the publishers to not only make their own copies, but force small authors to sell their rights in order to get published at all (makes sense) to give the big guys all the leverage and profit.
Again in the early 21st century it is literally nothing like that.
It used to be something that just prevents you from getting tricked and downloading a virus spoofing as a real game.
Only when the great victory against man began in 2016 does it disintegrate into the insanity you described. Basically you hear nothing about small producers, only big ones or the ones thay were already known.