Good to see at least there's some discussion around here on the topic.
But it's funny considering we're -all- guilty of copyright infringement, as all our computers must copy data constantly when we're using it. That game you're playing? It's not running off the disc you bought, or the downloaded files on your HD. Stuff had to be copied to your RAM (and video memory, etc etc), I hope you had permission for that (protip: you didn't.) Oops.
That CD you're listening to, data needs to be copied from the disc to be used (that's what "reading" a CD is, didn't you know?)
That website you're viewing, the images are not public domain, neither is the code nor the text. You have not been given authorization by the copyright owner to download (copy) them to your computer in order to display them on your monitor. Just because they put it out there, doesn't mean they don't deserve compensation for you just ripping off their website into your computer RAM! In fact, the escapist (and google, and facebook, and...) should sue all of us, right this instant, for downloading the entire website multiple times without their consent! We should be paying them every time we download a copy of the website (every time we press refresh in the browser, or change pages!)
That they are not enforcing their copyright does not mean they don't own it and that we are infringing it by not being granted permission to copy it, no matter the reason.
You are, we are, again, guilty of copyright infringement.
Constantly, invariably.
Now, some websites (and games, and art, etc) will explicitly note their content is licensed (!) through CC, GNU, etc or is actually public domain. Those are the only ones you can safely download as many times as you want due to the licensing (!) agreement. Everything else falls under Good'ol archaic copyright. Also, before anyone talks about "fair use," it's not an international concept yet copyright is.
We (and pretty much all corporations and governments) overlook these innocent instances of "copyright infringement" since they're idiotic, but they aren't any less illegal because they're idiotic.
And so too shall come to pass when the idea of digital "piracy" will be just as idiotic, as there will be no concept of copyright as we now understand it given how our technology changed the nature of copying and distribution. It has changed already, and these arguments and debates are all springing up out of the confusion caused by the radical paradigm shifts happening.
The only way to oppose this happening is the destruction of the internet and all the technology that powers it as it literally cannot function without copying data freely and arbitrarily, which is what the dying system will attempt to do.
Further reading?
http://www.lessig.org/
As always.
(Oh yeah, the books are all available under CC, so you can just grab them for 0$ bux. How dare he.)