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The fun thing about copyright is that it is a protection allowed to a creator for a limited time, then becoming part of the public domain. It is a mechanism designed to enrich the public domain, not to keep things out of it. Expiration of copyright is not the mean government taking things away from you, your exclusivity rights are a temporary gift. Copyright allows you to sell something to someone without giving them true rights of ownership for a period of time. Sadly, "producers" have managed to warp that period of time (in the US) to something exceeding the lifespan of the purchaser, such that you can buy something made today for your brand new baby also born today, and she will never have full rights to it.
You can pick on people stealing content easily enough, but that has nothing do do with copyright terms, its a totally different topic.
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