Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

This seems completely backwards to me. The very, very small number of organizations with specific reasons to limit their users freedom can update the system defaults to enforce these limitations, and let the other 99.9 % of humanity, including all sane corporations, to get on with their lives. Why on earth should the default value cater to a microscopic subgroup instead of the broad masses, when that subgroup can actually change the default for themselves?