[paulddraper]

Assuming you consider obeying copyrights to be ethical, then whenever copyright expires.

A copyright is the legal ability to say when and how the media will be shared.

If you want the media, and the copyright owner fails to cater to you and says "f--- off", that's them exercising that right.

It's not like "media" is some universal human right, at least according to the legal system.

If obeying copyrights is not required to be ethical, then right now.

[baddox]

I think the ability to transfer information from one consenting party to another is closer to a fundamental human right than the ability of content creators to control how copies of their content are distributed.