you mistook my brevity for ignorance. it's your loss. you don't deserve to keep on being exploited and fooled, and hoping to get crumbles, but that seems to be what you're after.

ask yourself, if copyright were so great for authors, why are companies who primarily exploit authors the ones who push hardest for it and its expansion, and why do they resort to all sorts of technical and legal tricks that are *not* copyright, while attempting to conflate them with copyright, to exert control over users? do you even understand this question?

what do you imagine copyright protects you from? from having your work widely known? (hint: it's not from having it published or distributed, you don't need copyright for that, if that's what you as an author would like to do)