The Copyleft's program is that creative goods should be distributed freely over the Internet, with the material fuel for the creative process supplied by either the spirit of volunteerism or government subsidy.

But we rely on non-markets and government subsidies for another major product -- roads. And, as TCSDaily points out, it does not really work too well. We pay a huge price in congestion and inconvenience. So more attention is being paid to how to move roads into a market system, so people can save what they actually value most -- their time.

The same slant needs to be applied to creative goods. Not, "how do we get a subsidy?" but "how do we make markets work?'

The Internet taketh away, but it also giveth, and one of the things it giveth is expanded opportunities for control of creative products through DRM, watermarking, and deep packet inspection, and, consequently, the opportunity to create better markets that now exist, similar to the way the smartpass is revolutionizing the prospects for markets in roads.