The thing is that it's not about DMCA, Protect IP, or SOPA, or $whatever per se. It's the big stinking pile of cash that is the force which continuously tries to leak through a dam and overflow down to congress. Patching individual holes does work but paradoxically, the better we do it the bigger is the force that accumulates behind our dam. If the dam holds, the force might just rise above the river banks and bypass the opposition totally.

Don't think of this as a gloomy doomsday post. I believe that in the end the freedom of people will win. However, it won't happen until that monetary force is first made to behave itself, though. Continuing the analogy, the force should be redirected to another, more constructive riverbed instead of letting it suppress the freedoms of people.

What interests me is the dynamics of these forces globally. If we happen to invent something as liberating and nurturing as the internet, why does this destructive force sooner or later appear and try to shut it down?

Or is it just that we people not completely ready for these new freedoms offered by the Net and that very extent to which we aren't then shows up in the form of commercial and governmental resistance against it?