Ideas/art/concepts/recipes/books are just waiting around to be discovered. We as a species discover them or develop them from our shared culture. And a bunch of rich fucks think they should get perpetual rights because they own all the content mills/researchers, regardless of how much the rest of the species would benefit.
Lets call most of our population criminals and have them sit next to each other in jail sharing file sharing techniques.
But being realistic, it depends on how far into the future the political party would like to keep winning votes.