The basic problem with copyright is that it was basically from day one aimed at being between large entities (authors, backed by the state, vs publishers/printe

The basic problem with copyright is that it was basically from day one aimed at being between large entities (authors, backed by the state, vs publishers/printers). But in recent decades, as technology has made it easy for individuals to produce copies, this has shifted into a couple of large entities vs the individual. The first few moves in that direction (copiers, analog tape recorders) were largely ignored or papered over by exceptions because policing them were a practical impossibility. But with the net every home have a implacable snitch. And thus there is a policing potential emerging that may well make STASI look like keystone cops.