[smitty1e]

As a technical matter, the 1s and 0s can be made to do all manner of things, so: sure.

TFA's point, to summarize radically, is that the individual and the society remain in tension. Society tends to crush the individual.

But I'm more sanguine. I submit that humanity is a saturated, agitated solution with societies precipitating and breaking up continually.

What's to be feared is the loss of agitation, but that's beyond our scope, so do your best where you're situated.

[TeMPOraL]

> As a technical matter, the 1s and 0s can be made to do all manner of things, so: sure.

To make it explicit in context of:

>> This would also prevent/discourage abuse for exchanging c/p or movie torrenting.

Usenet is a system very similar to e-mail in terms of data exchange format; both are textual and originally intended to exchange plaintext. Both developed convenient forms of encoding arbitrary binary data. Today, Usenet is in fact used for piracy, and I wouldn't be surprised if c/p was present on some groups too.

[smitty1e]

More generally: technology is mechanism; evil is agency.

Doubtless someone can name the fallacy surrounding efforts to produce a closed-form technical solution to matters of agency.

Minimize? Sure. But as long as Bad Actor can fog a mirror, the potential for evil is present.