That paper is awesome. I would rank it with Dawkin's The Selfish Gene as a transcendent perspective changer--insight through the written word that comes along a few times in a lifetime.
There should be a constitutional amendment protecting the Internet and its underlying structure. Maybe not today, maybe it's premature, but one day soon this will seem appropriate and needed. It would put the Judicial branch on our side.
War without rules would be a greater horror. Even the ancients had them (Julius Caesar himself was charged with war crimes). How could closure and peace be negotiated, for example, without protection for emissaries.