When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers' Fortresses

> Terminal automation allowed the Gopher team to rip the doors off of every information silo on campus and beyond.

I had never before grasped this part of Gopher's ascension story.

> Some FTP servers were so overwhelmed by inbound connections from FTP-Gopher gateways that they scrapped their FTP servers and installed Gopher servers instead!

and

> Rather than pursuing an argument with these self-appointed Lords of Computing, the Gopher team simply went around them, interconnecting to their services without asking for permission.

Is there any legal mechanism with which the walled gardens of today could be burrowed under by rodents? Or do we just have to hope that someday people will tire of the gardens and come out (bringing their content with them) on their own?