Because it's your right.
Copyright has been distorted into some kind of corporate welfare programme, and thanks to constant trash from corporations, most people seem to think it's some sort of right that you should forever be able to profit from something you made.
You have to remember that we as a society endorse copyright as an enticement for artists to create work. It's not for them to have a perpetual income source. People created stuff back before there was copyright, they created stuff when it was for a period much shorter than now. The trade off was made by us as a people to create an incentive. There's now really no need to create anything new (other than for even MORE cashola), because the old stuff never stops giving. That means copyright has gone too far.
It's hard to see these new laws as anything other than an attempt to keep that drip connected up. The idea is to make as many people as "guilty" as possible so they can keep the money coming in.
Copyright has been distorted into some kind of corporate welfare programme, and thanks to constant trash from corporations, most people seem to think it's some sort of right that you should forever be able to profit from something you made.
You have to remember that we as a society endorse copyright as an enticement for artists to create work. It's not for them to have a perpetual income source. People created stuff back before there was copyright, they created stuff when it was for a period much shorter than now. The trade off was made by us as a people to create an incentive. There's now really no need to create anything new (other than for even MORE cashola), because the old stuff never stops giving. That means copyright has gone too far.
It's hard to see these new laws as anything other than an attempt to keep that drip connected up. The idea is to make as many people as "guilty" as possible so they can keep the money coming in.