Thank you for making this video. Not only was it fascinating to see that mall in Bangkok, but you made lots of really good points.

I have to agree that people just do not care about copyright laws-- I for one think they are useless. When a copyright is upheld by the courts, those who have mainly been struck are the average worker of the world-- that is my opinion,but there may be facts to back that up, too. Every so often the courts get a hold of a Kim Dotcom, but that has been far less often than it has been a mom, grandma, or young adult that was penalized tens of thousands of dollars. What good did the penalizing do other than scare a few people? If penalizing the average person actually worked P2P would have vanished long ago.

Holding a copyright on academic papers and ideas, I believe, stunts academic growth, which was also a view that was held by Reddit founder Aaron Swartz. I see it as sharing and building upon the ideas of others towards a better outcome, or that is how I would like to at least think about it. Instead the world is bent around money making and power. We are holding ourselves back because we want to hold on to the intellectual rights that we have worked on, but to get to that end one had to have used the ideas of others to reach that end. Sure lots of hard work went in to research, studies, test, investments, and possible trials. Seriously though, if the end goal was to further a potential for the betterment of society why attach a chain to it? By putting it under a copy right you have basically just tried to stymie any possible growth that could have come from your own work.