filesharing morality

Just a thought, not neccessarily an entrenched opinion of mine, merely experimenting with ideas: Perhaps governments should pass special bills to protect the sales of bottled water against "water piracy". Oviously this is ridiculous, but why? Because nobody can deny people access to water that''s around them. It would be ridiculous to try to restrict water usage to small sellable units in bottles. Similarly, have we just become accustomed to a world where music can be "trapped" in discs/tapes etc. to the point where we consider it someone''s right to sell portions of music they make. Maybe we should just accept that this is no longer possible today. Information is now like water. If someone makes some music, or a movie, or software, they should just have to accept that it cannot be sold. All these copy protection systems, including palladium, are ugly botch job "solutions" trying to maintain the status quo. Like the bottled water companies demanding the goverment make unliscenced distillation equipment illegal. At this point I''m sure the responses are "what about all the music/movie/software creators? Do they just lose their income then?". Well, I suppose, yes. But it''s no argument for keeping things the way they are. Should we continue to use coal for as long as possible just to support coal miners? How about "we won''t have any music if nobody gets paid to do it". Well, I suppose we don''t have a very nice UNIX clone because nobody paid the programmers to make it. Oh, we do? Well maybe people will carry on making music and distributing it freely. It may not be their main occupation because there would only be a bit of money to be made from gigs/fan-tshirts etc, but I bet it''d be the best of what we have today. "How about movies? they cost millions!". Would you really miss most of the hollywood shite we get today? I''d be happy with more amateur productions. People still go to the cinema because it''s an experience, like a gig. This would provide enough money for productions once the excessive costs of todays productions are removed. Maybe we''re all too addicted to the market driven culture we are fed today. I think it would be a refreshing change rather than a disaster if all of it died because of "piracy". Think how nice it would be if our culture was fed by people''s desire to create rather than for money. (press that commie-alert button ) (note: I acknowledge that the water analogy is flawed because water is still a real commodity that cannot be duplicated like data can. Unfortunatly it''s the closest analogy I could think of)