There are already well-curated ways to protect digital IP (software, writing, music, other media) using the law. The harder problem is that the courts and legis

There are already well-curated ways to protect digital IP (software, writing, music, other media) using the law. The harder problem is that the courts and legislatures are unlikely to extend these laws to protect machine generated media. That means as media becomes more machine generated it becomes more difficult to get protection on them. Software becoming cheap isn't really a bad thing for practitioners or the customer.