I see that as being counterproductive and definitely NOT the very thing our country was founded on.
The US was founded by people who viewed copyrights as just another form of the Crown-bestowed monopolies which so hamstrung the British economy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The US didn't get copyright protection for literary works until 1891, following much campaigning by the likes of Charles Dickens -- surely the Lars Ulrich of his day.

Peter