The article does not address the central problem with copyright protection: that it is founded on industrial-age assumptions which no longer apply. As long as

The article does not address the central problem with copyright protection: that it is founded on industrial-age assumptions which no longer apply. As long as copying was capital- and labor-intensive, copyright was enforceable with reasonable measures. But it's now so easy to privately copy a work that copyright protection has become similar to the war on drugs in that it can only be enforced with draconian measures.