Re: I'd have sympathy....
"the ills of the system and totally evil DRM do not give IA any right whatsoever to do this."
I agree - the rules are as they stand.
But the fact that "copyright has been wilfully extended, mainly to suit USA music, film, TV and animation producers/distributors" still loses them* my sympathy.
* The large organisations which are set up to benefit from the works of others long after they should have passed into the public domain.