[zxcdw]

It exists because it can be used to make money. Making it inexistent would mean someone would lose money, and as such this it's logical that this losing party opposes it strongly.

If there's will there's a way. If there's money to be made, there's will for it. After all, if we throw enough money at it there's enough will.

Some people rely their income on things like copyright. They have kids to raise, house to pay and so on. It would totally suck for them to be cut from the income.

The whole setting is just sad though.

[salvadors]

Lots of purely civil cases revolve around exactly that. If we have a contract that says I'll do some work for you and then you'll pay me for it, but then you subsequently don't pay me, then I'm in exactly the scenario you describe. But then I have to sue you for the money in civil court — I can't get you sent to prison for it.