What lead us to this point in history where people whine and go on tantrums about the injustice of being given powerful free tools produced at great expense? I

What lead us to this point in history where people whine and go on tantrums about the injustice of being given powerful free tools produced at great expense? I think the root cause is the anti-piracy war, going on ever since the dawn of the computer age. The endgame may be an angry backlash of anti-copyright extremism gaining mainstream support. We may see a day soon when the voters demand an end to all copyright. Who knows what the end result of that would be.