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Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Controls
The copyright battles going on right now are not all about SOPA, PIPA, or even the wider-reaching ACTA: suraj.sun snips thus from TorrentFreak: "At a behind-closed-doors meeting facilitated by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, copyright holders have handed out a list of demands to Google, Bing and Yahoo. To curb the growing piracy problem, Hollywood and the major music labels want the search engines to de-list popular filesharing sites such as The Pirate Bay, and give higher ranking to authorized sites. ... If the copyright industry had their way, Google and other search engines would no longer link to sites such as The Pirate Bay and isoHunt. In a detailed proposal handed out during a meeting with Google, Yahoo and Bing, various copyright holders made their demands clear. The document, which describes a government-overlooked 'Voluntary Code of Practice' for search engines, was not intended for public consumption but the Open Rights Group obtained it through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request."
So by your argument were there is a preview, the the respective content never gets pirated? Or where the price is say a dollar ("It costs too much)? How about independents ("Stick it to the man")? Or when it get's distributed before it's even available to the retail market ("Oh copyright is too long") See whatever excuse you can come up for why piracy is OK, there's always someone out there who's going to make a liar out of you, and by association the rest.
You may not "give a fuck" but copyright is worldwide and so is piracy. Thinking the entire issue is just a US issue is myopic in the extreme. The actions of "us" will apply to the "I".
Either get your head out of your ass or suck on a shotgun.