Our economic system never adapted to anything that has an expensive template with cheaper copies, like movies where producing the movie is expensive but making digital copies is way cheaper. We’ve been too stuck in a marketplace of exchanging one-for-one, a model that is fundamentally incompatible with “template” production.
Since the mid 18th century the world’s been flailing around with “intellectual property” as a way to try to solve this problem, a horrific way since it only further enshrined the production machine ownership as true capital power.