Copyrights

So, I live in Bolivia, one of the biggest places to buy pirated DVD's, CD's, Computer games, basically anything. Its so easy to just go out and buy a CD for a fraction of the price you would get it in the States or Australia, do we even stop to think that its actually illegal?

Ok, with pirated DVD's, the camera wobbles, and you can see people getting up and walking out of the theatre, then there's the classic, "Sorry to interrupt the movie, but would Mr. and Mrs. Soandso please come to the concession stand, your children are waiting for you." These movies are so obviously pirated, but because this is a developing country, do we stop to think that buying these DVD's is an illegal act? What I think is funny, is in that little clip they play in the new movies, ya know "Would you steal a car? Would you steal a TV? Would you steal a purse? Would you steal.... a movie?" They show that at the beginning of pirated movies too...

Ok, YouTube has a bunch of really stupid copyright laws. I love old clips of say, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth, Peggy Lee, Dinah Shore, you know? But Youtube insists on the removal of these videos. If it was possible to get them, i would. But where on earth am i going to find older movies in modern day shops? Like Hermans Hermits, it would take an absolute age to find their movie that they made, but Youtube took down the clip that someone put up of it.

So, Copyrights, wrong or right? Are music makers, movie makers right to stop people from enjoying their product? Or has the movie/music industry become so wrapped up in money they forget that the original purpose of music and movies/theatre was to express ideas, to provide entertainment. Copyrights... wrong... or unbearably right?