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I think "the decentralization movement", for want of a better term, should stick to legal methods wherever possible. Free Software is a legal tactic and has been quite successful so far.

Moving into legally murky territory gets you not just Aaron Swartz but also the p2p wars of the 2000s. I seem to remember a lot of innocent people getting hammered with that, and one thing to keep in mind that in the years which followed they made those laws even worse.

In the UK in 2010 they passed the Digital Economy Act, one of the conditions of which was that copyright infringers would have their internet connection cut off. As far as I know that law has not been used, but it's there in place waiting for the opportune moment to arrive.