I find it humourous that only those with nothing to lose from it think things would be better without copyrighting.
Obviously they don't seem to realize just how much work goes into many programs- they should not be FREE, but many of the prices charged are ridiculous. I paid over 200 dollars for a Windows XP CD, and they couldn't even be bothered to provide a jewel case. I mean, OK- 200 dollars I could almost swallow, if MS was still distributing as much as they used to- the media, hard copy manuals, reference cards, etc, like they did for my copy of Visual Basic 2.0 that I have.
But 200 dollars for a freaking CD and nothing else? That's just plain silly.
the whole "it should all be free" argument seems to only be shared by those who have not contributed anything to the all and have nothing to lose and everything to gain from such an arrangement.
In a utopian society, you own nothing as your self, but there is a collective ownership.
No, not a "Utopian" society, that's called Communism. And it doesn't work. It's been tried quite a few times.