Both mindsets are legit. The only way to find out which one trumps the other is to vote on it. Surprisingly, nobody on the planet ever voted on copyright. It was decieded from the top down, in shady backroom deals and behind closed doors. It has always strategically excluded any democratic elements, because it was always enforced against the masses. The game is essentially rigged and under the current representative democracy system, there is no way to correct it, because the special interests simply buy out whomever we elect to represent us. And since we cant change representatives as fast as they can buy them out, theres no way for anything to change in the short term, unless we start getting rid of representative democracy alltogether and upgrading it to direct democracy.

What the MPAA/RIAA are doing is despicable, but at the same time it is an indicator that there exists a more fundamental flaw in the system which allows them to easily exploit it and buy their way out of the democratic framework.