@Narbray In the past, in some countries, the penalty for infringing copyright was death.

If I remember correctly, there was a monopoly arrangement where only authorized parties could stitch certain marks into clothing and if a clothing maker was caught making certain stitch patterns unauthorizely, they were sentence to death.

Of course, people still kept doing it, even with a sizable portion of the population executed.


The only thing that's going to stop copyright laws from getting worse is to license under the AGPLv3+, GPLv3+ and/or the GFDL-1.3+ and not hesitate to enforce such copyrights against the government's friends if they dare infringe it - as governments can't risk admitting that only businesses are entitled to copyright restrictions.