I'm not sure. For any given subject, the society has a majority of people largely ignorant of that subject. Here, since BigContent managed to call some types

I'm not sure. For any given subject, the society has a majority of people largely ignorant of that subject. Here, since BigContent managed to call some types of state-granted monopolies "Intellectual Property" and "Protection", the vast majority of people tend to agree with them by default (at least on principle, before they actually download something). Property and protection sound like good things, right? Now if you meant "society" to exclude people who are totally ignorant of the subject (which would be reasonable if we found a fair, reliable way to exclude people from voting on subjects they don't know enough about), then of course I agree with you.