entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones

I simply fail to see how making works of art unavailable promotes the progress of science and the useful arts, let alone how it benefits the creators. If you want to call that entitlement, that's up to you. I think it's the corporations who have the sense of entitlement, thinking they should be allowed to make artistic works completely unavailable because they feel like it. That's not why copyright was created.