I think it's very much the demographics of people in tech, and I mean that in a cynical way. 10-15 years ago, if you were in tech, you wrote software to sell to people. Back then I don't remember much righteous indignation about the morality of copyrights. Today, working in tech often means working at a "middle man" place like Google or Netlfix or Amazon, which profit by being gateways to other people's content. It's unsurprising that these folks may have different views on copyright.
"10-15 years ago, if you were in tech, you wrote software to sell to people. Back then I don't remember much righteous indignation about the morality of copyrights."
People didn't have nearly as much access to the Internet then, and the implications of copyright enforcement were much less pronounced (and more endurable). It was a time when 90% of Windows installations were unlicensed. It was also an economic boom (and Microsoft in particular was on fire). Now the Internet touches much more, and enforcing copyright laws among other things (increasing surveillance, etc), feels suffocating. Most countries are in a recession, for one reason or another...
