I dunno, I felt the same way, and most of my classmates were into alcohol, drugs, partying, getting laid and other similar stereotypical teen activities. Besides that, they generally acted about as mature as the average middle schooler, showed little control over their emotions, and seemed to lack a basic capacity for logic. Might just be pop culture, but I definitely felt what MatalUpa is talking about. Again, I'm generalizing based on the people I was around, so not everyone at my school was like that, just a majority.
You'd be surprised, how many of those "middle men" are so upset over the fact that internet stole their main source of income. That's why we're being literally swamped with all these "anti-piracy" campaigns, that are actually undercover operations from copyright holder associations, all in order to eliminate their competitors and secure their status quo as the only monopolists on the market. They do not understand, nor care that internet simply offers the best and most reliable ways to share products across the globe, especially digital content. All they want to do is leech money out of both the creators and their customers. Little they know, it's literally impossible to fight with the whole world.
Copyright laws and copyright itself is a bunch of crap. The only reason we are all here with all we got so far, is because people shared their knowledge, ideas, dreams and passions between themselves and no one ever said a thing if someone were using someone else's idea of a "wheel" to produce a different or better one. Tho, who knows where are we currently heading - with all the patents and rights for large corporations with enough of a financial backup to claim their stake over trivial things like words (example: King acquired the sole rights for the word "rabbit" and instantly sued all the other major game studios with games containing it within their titles), we can't be so sure of it anymore. Greed and indolence are awful.
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