Ummm, I run a small business, and I take advantage of intellectual property rights. Of course, you have no idea who I am, so why would my rights matter to you?
http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/sometimes-its-ok-to...
For example, people are willing to pay for Spotify which with moderate average daily use (3 hours) is about 45 songs a day which comes out to $0.007 a song. Very few artists would be willing to admit that's how much their songs are really worth unless the listener is already a die-hard fan.
Nearly every popular game on Steam can be pirated with enough effort and yet Steam sales are practically a national holiday.
Piracy, like everything else has a cost, which can be beaten by good business rather than government control.
In my case "I get paid to write that which does not exist yet", and in theory that wouldn't change much whether copyright continued to exist or not.
(Abolishment immediately without warning would lead to some messy issues that don't fit in the margin of this post. The reason is simply that everyone is used to the current situation. But it'd sort itself out after a year or two. )