We live in an age of digital theft, though not the kind you think of. The real digital theft is committed mostly by companies like Google and Meta that steal your data and then resell it back to you in the form of advertising.
But some digital theft feels more like highway robbery, as in this story in the Times about some humble folk artists who were robbed of the ownership of their own original songs.
No one should be surprised that there is theft, even of intellectual property. What is disconcerting is how difficult it is to reclaim ownership of the stolen property. Our “system” of publication and distribution of intellectual property is clumsy and defective.
But I believe the genie is out of the bottle on this issue.