The original purpose was to incentivize creative works, and the desirability of that hasn&#x27;t really gone away. For example, Free software would be a lot further along if there could be a lucrative business model behind it.<p>Enforcement is just utterly at odds with physics and at this point, the idea of &quot;owning&quot; control of bits in someone else&#x27;s possession is incompatible with a free society.