What is really interesting to me here is that it seems that it could genuinely go both ways, and what we do can end up deciding whether the system with network effect is one that allows free assets. In that sense we have a responsibility not just to ourselves, to sit on our high clean horse, but to do what is right determined by what will actually happen given our choices.
I hate utilitarianism as much as the next guy, but realize that submission to absolute principles in the face of exceptional, unique and complex events is to compromise our capacity for absolute, consciously determined choices, i.e. choices where all things are considered under one with true understanding.