Completely agree with you. It's the 21st century, once data has been published there is no controlling it anymore and all attempts to do so lead to the destruction of computer freedom. No doubt people all over the world copy code every single day with nobody even finding out about it. I'd rather get rid of all these monopolists than limit the potential of computers to whatever reality enables them.
>I accept I am in a group of like 3 people with this goal but it's my view
Now we're four.
Can you actually point to substantial examples where Disney or Nintendo benefited significantly from a precedent set by an open source court case? Open source has been around for decades, so it should be trivial to find numerous clear-cut examples at this point... if your theory is actually correct.
If there would be no enforcement of IP/licensing or legal enforcement - M$, Google etc. would not be nice - they would just come over and kick your doors cut your head off because they could do so. With legal framework they at least have to ask someone else.
You just have to understand you don't stand a chance with your 3 buddies against 10 motivated attackers.
Writing about "accepting terms of dominant party" you clearly never had a robbery at your house - imagine now corporations doing the same when there would be no legal frameworks.
Read up on Dutch East India Company - or just Nestle - Microsoft or Google are still quite nice companies with Walt Disney and Nintendo.
There's quite a lot of possibilities between DMCAs of youtube-dl repositories and Big-co death-squads decapitating people in their homes. I'd prefer where we are now to the Brazil end of that spectrum but we can imagine better models of digital and intellectual 'property'.
I agree that people should be able to decompile/reverse engineer whatever the hell they want.
And if armed goons (whether goverment or if they are Microsoft or some company) kick down your doors, then they should be arrested for trespassing.
As long as copyright exists, copyleft should be respected.
Every time we use courts to enforce IP we're strengthening the Walt Disneys and Nintendos of the world.
(I accept I am in a group of like 3 people with this goal but it's my view)
Edit: to expand slightly more on this. People should be able to decompile/reverse engineer whatever the hell they want. They shouldn't have to worry about armed goons kicking down their doors. Every time cases are used to strengthen the enforcement of IP/licensing, whether for the light (FSF) or dark (Micro$oft, Google, etc) the outcome is the same, we move further from that goal.