Has there been even a single move away from ever more draconian copyright? Just the last budget bill had provisions for more criminal enforcement of copyright and with bipartisan support. If this is a slippery slope it's a steady and worryingly unstoppable one so far.

Civil disobedience through distributed systems seems like the only answer right now.

Your legislators can't hear you over the sound of millions of dollars from Hollywood getting deposited in their campaign accounts.