Ad hominem = debate fail.
You can't dismantle something that doesn't exist. You have no "internet rights". You have no right to have an internet connection; in order to get one you MUST pay an ISP ten bucks a month, and there's no law requiring ISP's to offer you one.
Freedom of speech does not require anybody to give you a megaphone to speak into you, nor require anybody else to listen to you.
Nope.
You actually do. You have the same rights to the internet as you have with all types of media, i.e. free speech.
The internet is just a new type of media, just like the newspaper or radio, only this time, there is no central control, and money changes hands
before content.
But this does not, in any way or form, give the state the right to censure or limit speech on the internet.
Providers are allowed to, though, just as a newspaper is allowed to decide which type of propaganda leanings it have.
But the state is certainly not.
And all that is even only part of the reason this is so stupid. The OPs original point is not anywhere close to any rights, a part you seem to have missed, but that it only hurts sales, as it only inconvenience legal buyers.
It's stupidity, brought on by people that simply don't understand the "new*" technology, are not "geeks", do not understand how a general purpose computer works and an industry that desperately holds on to their old method of sales. Neo-luddites all of them, even if they are too clueless to know it.
They are hurting development, as any limiting on computing and information exchange will hurt, well, pretty much anything, even themselves in the long run, as the internet have created a huge new marked, one which they have been too slow to exploit, too short-sighted to see and a marked they are actively hurting.
*It's older that I am, though the modern version is not, barely.
