Copyright seems to have become more about the loss of potential gains than it has been about ensuring a person doesn't sell copies of someone elses products for profit.

Like, music piracy used to be about cracking down on people selling copies of records and things, but after a time it became more about stopping people sharing free copies of everything from games to movies, novels and shows. In some cases people try to sell these things, resellers buy out consoles and jack up the prices to create artificial scarcity which ultimately damages game sales in the long run (hence why it should be stopped).

The thing is that not everyone can afford to buy these products, and just because there's no way to pirate things doesn't mean these people will pay for everything now, it just means they will see less things.

Consider the radio. If everyone had to pay to listen, how many people would have had radios in their cars? Ultimately it's the radio broadcaster footing the bill, the same way that pirates pay for the product before distributing it freely. The difference is that the broadcaster is paying a lot more and in return relies on ads to keep this going, while the pirates in most cases do so at their own expense. Internet memes are the simplest form of piracy, still gets affected by takedowns when the corporations feel like it.

I feel that there should be two separate things, paid works, and unpaid works. If anything makes any kind of profit then it should have all the laws and regulations we regularly deal with, even if it's a non-profit, but if it's unpaid at all, then no company should be able to do anything about it.