If you would not try to align record companies and the NSA in the axis of evil you would come to a less convoluted analogy: If we accept that copyright is meani

If you would not try to align record companies and the NSA in the axis of evil you would come to a less convoluted analogy: If we accept that copyright is meaningless in a world of digital copies (a.k.a. "cannot put the toothpaste back") the same holds for the river of digital traces everyone leaves behind. So it's not governments who try harder to maintain their secrets, it's you (or us or whoever). Just for the fun of it: take a recent pandora related artist-bashing thread, look for the "too late, digital wants to be free" comments and apply them to a scenario where we not talking about sound waves but phone metadata.