"Compared to the economic and human disruptions of shipping most of America's manufacturing jobs overseas since WWII"

That didn't happen overnight and was not done out of an immediate law change.

Which side you're taking here? Sudden and Legal are pretty unobjectionable to folks who aren't pro-copyright for other reasons. But could sound excellent to (say) folks who "bought and owned" digital property...then had their access cut off suddenly and legally.

ps - If you're not aware that the offshoring was a legal change, you might want to read the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tariffs_in_the_Unit...