Infringement is good for the economy. Even our nations have progressed at a time when none of that was enforced, and are only strolling since then (or, as you may aptly say, rent-seeking).

PS: For those of us in software who wonder whether an economy without IP could exist, entire software industries exist without copyright protection, one trick for example is to provide the service behind the cloud, so customers never have access to the source code; meanwhile OSS, which is based on preventing restrictions on sharing, is the eighth wonder of the world, which has proven that IP is unnecessary to software.