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I don’t think I could write anything better than what already had written here and is available for you to chew on, and it’s all about the people/organization disguising themselves under the copyright law/intellectual property law (intangible assets) claim that open source promotes piracy.  No matter how I look at this, it does sound very wrong to me.  The first thought came up in my mind was that if I had came up with anything, it’s always my right and mine alone to allow my intangible assets such as software to be distribute however I wish.  For an example, I could distribute my software under open source licenses, or I could charge a fee and slap on an IP license.  It’s not right for one group to claim something that everyone does is wrong, and only that group is right.  After all, no one group has the right to all intangible assets of all other groups.  It’s not like open source has not made any sense, but open source is something that makes sense — even Microsoft has gave in to open source and contributes some of its resources to open source movement (although nothing major but still…).