“Believe it or not, it’s quite easy to enforce copyright laws not despite technology, but because of it.”
You’re speaking of technology as it is, not as it will be. People are already developing ideas for 3-d printers that will be able to print new 3-d printers. When things like that become commonplace, then the industry will be cut out of the loop, because any individual will be able to create the means of production themselves, bypassing any built-in security measures easily.
Now, it may be that the industry can adapt and convince people to keep buying their product instead of just duplicating it themselves, if they are able to make purchasing the product more convenient, or offer some additional services along with the product that the consumer won’t get if they just copy it. Those are the kinds of adaptations that are going to be necessary for industries to stay competitive in the future, not cracking down harder and harder on pirates in what is destined to be a losing battle.
Oh crap.
They taught them about sex.
We're doomed!