New technologies, like Freenet and Gnutella , are being devised to ensure anonymity and decentralization when sharing information on the Internet, making it impossible for the RIAA and its ilk to find anyone to sue. Considering the sorry state the law has allowed intellectual property rights to slide to, I see them as liberators, too. Big business and bigger governments will do their absolute best to censor, silence and control what is being shared and said online, but the geeks so far have always remained two steps ahead of them. Society needs the propellerheads too much to outlaw or suppress their work completely, so it's likely the renegade geeks will remain two steps ahead. So now you know why it's useless to worry about protecting your copyright.
Modern copyrights are so ludicrously powerful on paper, they run against the public interest.
That means all those marvelous rights are all but unenforceable. The Association for Editorial Photographers has the right idea. A pizza can feed a family of four. Photographers held some comfort that they could re-use a few of the photos they took on assignment as stock photography used by advertising agencies. This is an increasingly small comfort.