Properly limited functions of copyright as a restrictive legal instrument must be reinstated: a means to preclude or penalize egregious (and rare) plagiarism, or sale of unauthorized physical copies of a work that's officially available in a physical format. That semantic expansion defining unauthorized access of data as "theft" is one of the most speciously insidious to ever enjoy purchase in popular consensus.
Properly limited functions of copyright as a restrictive legal instrument must be reinstated: a means to preclude or penalize egregious (and rare) plagiarism, or sale of unauthorized physical copies of a work that's officially available in a physical format. That semantic expansion defining unauthorized access of data as "theft" is one of the most speciously insidious to ever enjoy purchase in popular consensus.