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Master_Shake: Sorry about the comment, I didn't mean for it to offend you. Hell, I didn't mean for it to even particularly apply to you. If I thought you were really doing bad philosophy, I wouldn't be bothering talking with you.
I pretty much agree with what Yakk says about copyrights, so I'll leave that alone.
As far as 'the man' goes, you seem to forget a number of things. First of all, 'the man' is an abstraction. Even if 'the man' is 'keeping you down', that doesn't mean that any specific individual is acting in a corrupt manner. Second, I doubt very much that the corporations are working together in the manner you describe. Things are just too competitive -- these people are not each other's cronies, they are rivals. Even in an organization like OPEC, which is specifically designed to keep oil prices artificially high, there are problems regulating the member, since Argentina stands to make a good deal more money by selling just a little bit more oil than they're supposed. And that's in a cartel that explicit. Suppose these corporations did have an agreement like you suppose, to artificially keep wages low. How long before one of them sees that, by increasing wages just a little bit, they can get much better talent? (There's a Econ term for this, but it's been too long...) And then the spiral continues, until people are making more or less what they should.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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