Shenanigans, diplomacy and copyright

Cory Doctorow writes an interesting article about the diplomatic process around the latest copyright "reform" the big entertainment companies are demanding from the UN.

Can we please make sure that all the big entertainment companies get deported to a gulag somewhere? I'd love to pay an artist for his work, maybe even a middleman, but not to a huge conglomerate paying pennies to the artists and pocketing millions themselves.