"Intellectual property" as an idea has to go away
It's even more absurd now when the big AI companies train their LLMs on torrented books.
mostly effects the poor and ignorant so considered a minor issue
Why? People are currently free to release all intellectual rights to what they release, so in theory these is already a intellectual property right free marketplace and people that want to create under that model creating.
Like, all together? I'd agree that copyright terms are often much too long, but if you write a book, I'm totally okay with you owning the rights to that and making money off of it for a while.