The battle isn't lost... it will first begin the day p2p becomes illegal.
digital copying is a much bigger case than it might already seem. To copy something almost effortless, almost expenseless, and enterely perfect is something that has never been possible before.
This means that the free market are becoming obsolete, and we'll soon end up with a market that is inconsistent with itself and the principles behind it.
let me quote Marx:
"At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or — this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms — with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure."
Well... it's a theory at least... but the point is:
REVOLUTION!
