The US government doesn't even consider the needs of its own public and it considers the interests of the public of other countries even less. The actual methods used are parallel, except in small details, to those used in the Soviet Union to stamp out unauthorised copying. Because the government didn't like it, it used authoritarian measures against it. And propaganda stating that only a vicious enemy of the people would do this illegal copying. In the US the propaganda word 'pirate' is used if you share data with your neighbour.
Free software is software that everybody is free to copy or modify.
It becomes free software because the author has authorised copying or modification. Free software is an example of developing material without obstructing its use and its users. If the example of free software and non-copyright material on the web is accepted then new business models are needed. For software there seem to be a number of models that work. The best people to ask about that are the 'open source' people who have taken the ideas of free software and discarded the ethical considerations that are the foundation for us and focused on practical benefits alone.