Unfortunately that's just not the situation. The problem isn't the guy in China with a pirate factory anymore. That guy probably is starting to worry about his job as well, because he can't compete with free to anyone who has a phone or tablet or computer.

The problem is that almost everyone out there steals digital content with a casual disregard that boggles the mind of any actually honest person. And now there's a massive infrastructure out there purely to illegally distribute content, and it's used by enormous numbers of people. That's the reality of it.

And of course the guy in China was a problem in the past, but we didn't have people in the western world importing illegal discs from China by the billions, so it was primarily a problem in an area that always was a problem anyway because it wasn't a wealthy country in previous decades. Illegal downloading, OTOH, completely undermined the actual working market of the first world countries where the money was actually made, because people who could easily afford to do the right thing and buy their content just stopped and started downloading everything for free.

Within a few years of the internet going commercial, an entire industry sprang up to rip off digital content producers, and to vilify those producers for any attempts to protect themselves. Now, it's gotten so bad that if some company forces something to be taken down on Youtube, they are condemned as evil, when in fact they are the ones being ripped off.

As long as the situation is like that, you aren't going to get any sympathy from lawmakers, who don't have be to paid off to support more copyright protection. Enforcing copyright is actually their job and they have been failing at it badly so it's not too hard to convince them to try to do things, whether or not they are ultimately effective. And believe me, it hurts small companies and less popular artists even worse than large ones, because the smaller players have less margin for loss.

Anyhoo, if you want to get rid of copyright protection measures, you'll first have to actually convince people to stop breaking the law on a massive scale. Then, when those measures are no longer required, and the losses to copyright infringement are something remotely close to what other industries lose to theft, you may get some sympathy from lawmakers on that front.

But, you know that's not going to happen. It's just going to get worse and worse. So the situation isn't going to change for the better and there's not going to be any real view by lawmakers that existing CP schemes are overbearing relative to the problem.

The only possible partial solution I see is to move personal copyright infringement out of the area of civil law and into the criminal law arena. Copyright was original conceived when it WAS the guy with the knockoff factory who was the problem, and anyone with a factory and resources and such is subject to lawsuits and fines. But now the problem isn't one guy stealing millions of items, it's hundreds of millions of people stealing hundreds of items, so civil law just isn't effective anymore. You'd go broke just trying to get judgments against a tiny fraction of the people who are stealing from you, so it's not even a waste of time, it's a counter-productive operation. And of course if you do try to protect yourself, you just get treated like a war criminal by the huge mass of people out there who believe now that it's their right to take anything digital they want.