I don't believe in copyright at all, even in principle. The closest I can get is that it should be within the power of the state to grant temporary monopolies on things that it wants to encourage. But there is a basic conflict between freedom of expression and the fact that expressions can be copyrighted.

However, the idea that IA is going to defeat a copyright industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars is laughable. If you're going to fork between government choosing to end copyright and government choosing to end the IA, the IA is 100% dead.

Characterizing people who don't want the IA to risk all against copyright as copyright-supporters is not fair at all. It's like calling people Assadists who didn't want to invade Syria.