I agree that replication of films renders them less valuable but that doesn't change the fact that by placing them on D-Tube where you can earn directly from that upload is profiting off the artistic work of others. THAT is lazy. The law might in fact be wrong, but that also doesn't change anything. Profiting off of other people's work without consent is immoral because it enriches one person while harming the ones who made it and took the risk to fund it. Films are extremely expensive to make, even the cheap ones.

I'm not arguing for infinite copyright, or that the law is properly formulated or that sharing is wrong. I have no problem with sharing between friends. If I make a copy and hand it to a friend, that's different than me infinitely replicating something and then earning money off of it. Bootleg away, just don't start selling the bootleg, which is what people are doing by uploading other people's work on D-Tube. If you can't make your own content, you shouldn't enrich yourself with someone else's artistic work.

As a final thought, we don't live in the Star Trek universe, but if this demonstrates anything, it's that the economics of Star Trek are horse shit. Resources will always be scarce for one reason or another, whether by fiat or via the forces of nature and people's time and labor matter precisely because they are finite. Even though that time and labor might not be valuable to everyone, it strikes me as rude beyond the pale to shrug it off and say, "well since you've got your business model wrong it's okay to just take what you made and sell it myself."