content: I'm an author and frankly, I appreciate copyright for keeping my works from being stolen- it would suck to spend five years on a book, release it, and watch Disney adapt it into a blockbuster movie, video game and then crappy novelization of the movie version without my seeing a penny from the whole dirty process. Of course, copyright law doesn't always protect authors- sometimes studios will claim that a film lost money in order to avoid paying the people who worked on it- this happened with Forrest Gump. So while I don't think the abolition of copyright would lead to a revolution of free culture, I think that copyright needs some serious reform. Like, why should my work become public domain seventy years after I'm dead? Does my estate really need the money that badly? Am I even going to like the people living on my estate in seventy years?