> The small-time independent publishers and creators also want to restrict the web because they don't want their content "stolen".

I'm sure some music creators may have, years ago, been against CD recorders, or platforms like Napster or even IRC-based file transfer for sharing music. Hell, maybe they were even against VCRs back in the day. But they were misguided at best.

People who want to prevent computer users from freely copying data are, in this context at least, part of "them" rather than "us".