Copyright Law now protects ideas, phrases, characters, plots, settings, places etc., and all derivative works of them are illegal w/o permission, even if you're not making any money off of them, and circumventing software restrictions such as jailbreaking an iphone is now illegal as well.

I thought it used to be that only copying & redistributing or obtaining actual works themselves without permission (piracy) was illegal? Now it seems it's illegal to even think about something someone else owns the rights to unless you're watching/reading it, and things such as characters, places, names, and phrases are protected as well, and so-called "derivative" works are illegal without permission. Now things such as fan works, memes, parodies, remixes, and backup copies of stuff for personal use are illegal, even if you're not making money on them. And I don't recall software companies being able to restrict how you use you own technology just because they own the "intellectual property" rights to it either. Almost everyone I know remembers it the old way as I do where it merely outlawed piracy, without all the extra restrictions that simply don't feel natural or warranted at all.