Who are they defrauding? Everything being done here is legal. There is no victim.

The commons. They profit by making everyone else worse off. We should have a specific name for that sort of economical behavior. “Leeches”?

It is a nasty aftereffect of the copyright law expanding like cancer.

I would gladly go back to the older 14+14 system, even though I have nontrivial income from royalties. In my opinion, copyright should motivate people to create new things, not one cash cow that they then will milk for eternity.