More like market driven perverse incentives.

Ethics is the study of oughts. That’s why the frame of reference matters. Law is the floor. Nobody said legal = acceptable. I said the copyright destruction mechanism is worth understanding before using it as a rhetorical grenade.

So no, you didn’t “gotcha”. You just wanted to try for a cheap shot / try to put words in my mouth so you could knock down a strawman for the cheap seats.

Some might consider that unethical, big man.