Such a crack-down on the free-sharing world of the Internet has been a popular prediction at least since the 1990s, and you can probably find it in the oldest U

Such a crack-down on the free-sharing world of the Internet has been a popular prediction at least since the 1990s, and you can probably find it in the oldest Usenet archives. However, it isn't hard to imagine that we are at a turning point in history, moving beyond the status quo in international relations that has been in place since WW2. That means a possible end to a whole range of international agreements and treaties, and a fragmented world where anything is possible, somewhere, now that there is no chance of global consensus about anything at all. I'm waiting patiently for the international consensus for protection of "intellectual property" to break down. Plenty of countries take a net loss from it, and without the carrot of access to international trade systems like the WTO, if such are discontinued, they won't have an incentive to continue with it.