In ten years or less, new technologies will make it simple. The cost of sharing digits will fall. The amount demanded will rise as the costs fall. What will movie theaters do when they all use only digitally distributed movies to show on-screen. One easily purloined copy, and the movie is available on-line for free.
Encryption is one solution.
But encryption has limits. It can be broken if enough time is focused on one code-breaking project. Meanwhile, the National Security Agency makes it illegal for American software firms to produce and sell advanced encryption technologies for data transmission. The government wants control over private data transmission . If the government eases up on these rules, privacy will make a quantum leap forward.