I'm also not a fan of the profit viewpoint, but part of the concept of property is definitively having the right to exclude people from it. In fact, that's already being used for data protection: they must get a warrant to get data from your phone, but not from an FB account, because the servers are not your property.
And this applies to copyright as well - for example, without it, Bill Watterson wouldn't have been able to stop companies from using Calvin & Hobbes on their ads and other marketing crap. The GPL is also an example of it being used to exclude certain uses of it, rather than profiting from it.
but that becomes near impossible with digital information. just try removing something from the internet right now
I belive that the entire internet is changing so that this becomes every more feasible and I don't think that this is a good thing.
I think that if I have some data in my computer nobody (not even entities claiming to "own" or "have created" such data) should have the right to force me to delete said data. Just as an example imagine the information is not really digital data but something you have learned. Should anybody have the right to force you to forget something because it is "theirs"!?
I was going to respond to parent but you brought up the point I was going to bring attention to: requiring anyone to forget/destroy/not disseminate information is an infringement on their liberty. While I understand that we do have laws that attempt to stop the intentional, public dissemination of false information, I think the focus (in relation to privacy) should be more on creating an environment where people can choose to prevent the release of that information in the first place and less on restricting what it can he used for.
And this applies to copyright as well - for example, without it, Bill Watterson wouldn't have been able to stop companies from using Calvin & Hobbes on their ads and other marketing crap. The GPL is also an example of it being used to exclude certain uses of it, rather than profiting from it.