What does copyright really get us? Waste. Lots of waste. Especially e-waste. Tons of products that cannot be repaired or reverse engineered.

- insulin pumps that cannot be repaired

- tractors that cannot be repaired

- cars that cannot be repaired

- printer ink cartridges that cannot be refilled

- entire swaths of pop culture lost to the annals of history because nobody can figure out who owns the rights to it anymore so it disappears from society unless you've pirated it

- software that's important, functional, but technically EOL and unusable anymore because the only computer it runs on is dead and the company that made it was gobbled up by another tech conglomorate and they hold the copyrights and patents but won't support or allow anyone to reverse engineer it or make it work on modern computers


It's really hard to square having a big boner for copyright and caring about the environment / fighting against consumerism at the same time. The two aren't even close to being compatible.