I read that as a (possibly sarcastic) rhetorical and cautionary hypothetical used to demonstrate the absurdity of ignoring copyright.

You seem like you set aside any critical thinking to come to "this website" looking for a reason to seethe over complete strangers about whom you know very little and whose motives you belligerently misrepresent all the while making exaggerated and extremist statements, and no doubt embracing worse thoughts.

You're the type of person destroying the planet _I_ live on.

This isn't a defense of technologists, it's a plea to stop tripping over yourself to see the worst in everyone.

I agree that was the intent of the analogy but it’s not a great one. The idea that Disney, who has perverted IP laws globally for almost a century, should have equivalent ownership over their over-extracted copyrighted works to the same degree I have privacy for the thoughts in my own head? Really?

What's with the unnecessary straw man? Who said any of that?

Would the average person even be against it? I am the most passionately pro-privacy person that i know, but i think it is a good question because society at large seems to not value privacy in the slightest. I think your outrage is probably unusual on a population level

The don’t value it because they think companies are not abusing this power too much. Little do they know…

When i talk to people it seems like they know but they just dont care. They even think their phones are listening to their conversations to target ads.

It is well known that people change how they act when they know they are being watched. Even if they can't see it, just the threat of surveillance is enough to make people change their behavior.

I say it is no different than the people who are claiming they don't care. They absolutely do care, but at this point, saying "no" makes you the odd one with obviously something to hide, so they do this from a place of duress.

Unfortunately, I feel we are not too far from people finally snapping and going off the deep end because it's so pervasive and in-your-face that there is seemingly no escape left.