A tidal wave of workers was going to sweep aside the obstructive nuisance of private ownership. Copying and transmitting data is becoming too easy for the law to protect anyone's private ownership. The ribbon of digital highway is for roamin' and ramblin'. Copyright is dead. Digital content can be shuffled as easily as it can be transmitted.
Encryption puts viscosity right back into the fluid digital pipeline.
Curiously, most of the property abolitionists seem to like this home-brew form of copyright. There's a strong economic rejoinder too, as Bob Wright pointed out on these screens not long ago. Most people won't steal digital content if buying actually remains cheaper and easier, as it probably will. It's an analysis that hasn't progressed beyond the Pampers stage of political theory. Twenty years ago, the Supreme Court announced that lawmakers couldn't ban abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy, but could ban them in the third.