> The world just "chose" to make intellectual property law. The zillion dollar copyright industry and their lobbyists and their international trade agreements had absolutely nothing to do with it.

Well, yes, the thing that didn’t exist until after the law was created did not reach back in time and cause the law to be created. I would think that would not need to be stated, but,...

Nobody in my country cared about copyrights at all until the US and its "stakeholders" started its trade agreements and emergent market naughty list bullshit. I remember some MPAA lobbyist asshole coming here many years ago to push his agenda being met by journalists asking why this should be a priority in a country with a ridiculously high homicide rate and without universal basic sanitation, now we're wasting resources ineffectively policing imaginary american property.

> imaginary American property

Well, your country is consuming it, it doesn’t seem very imaginary…