That really goes for any new technology that makes the dissemination of information more easily accessible to the common man, and/or makes it easy to duplicate

That really goes for any new technology that makes the dissemination of information more easily accessible to the common man, and/or makes it easy to duplicate works. The printing press, magnetic tape, CD burners, MP3, peer-to-peer filesharing, high speed internet, the list will go on forever. Anything that lets ordinary people duplicate and share information will be vilified and demonized by those in power, because they know their power is built on an information monopoly.