Poier writes: "[C]opyright was, in the Eighteenth century, a newly issued law which protected an immaterial good never considered before

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Poier writes: "[C]opyright was, in the Eighteenth century, a newly issued law which protected an immaterial good never considered before. Copyright was opening a new chapter in legal history. The statute of Anne was founding a new legal territory, as well as setting up and sketching out the first cartography of it. Illegitimate printers, as pirates before them, could be considered pioneers in newly discovered and settled territories. Those territories were potentially extremely rich and vast - even if it was not clear to anyone exactly how rich and vast they were. Authors, but especially printers, wanted to monitor this new activity and set up clear laws which could punish those who were not following the terms of the pact among printers. The definition of the illegitimate printers as pirates then is not just a rhetorical stratagem, but shows us that pirates and counterfeiters have in common more than the plundering of rich merchants: they reveal an attitude of criminalization activated by markets and governments." (45-6).  In this passage Poier is basically arguing that there is a sense and logic to the semantic expansion of piracy to describe counterfeiters; he is saying they actually have somet things in common. So how do you understand his argument: what are the things they share according to Poier? Based on class materials do you agree with his argument or are there important points that he is missing?