"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Orin Kerr strikes me as a very reasonable man. There are lots of reasonable men. They're all going to stand around and argue about how many legal angels can dance on how many pins.
Meanwhile, unreasonable men are plotting on how to make progress. Aaron Swartz struck me as a particularly unreasonable man. He made lots of progress until he ran into these artificial roadblocks.
Laws are there to benefit society, not as a brake on progress or as a way to protect outdated business models against the greater common good, especially when it comes to such things as access to knowledge.