Okay, the gist of the article is that the author(s) believe anti-circumvention laws protecting digital assets are going to be torn up. China is already showing that, a country where you are a fool if you pay for a Windows license and where you can buy bootleg media everywhere.

That doesn’t seem to be where the world is heading though. Instead, it looks like regulation is used more and more to affect monopolies, especially tech ones. Japan, the EU, and other players have mandated that Apple and Google allow other app stores on their phones.

I can’t imagine that governments around the world really have an appetite for an open (trade) war with the United States. Maybe if they banded together and decided to sort things out as adults, forcing the USA to face a united front.