Free doesn't emerge from the quantum vacuum of spacetime in the realm of digital products however. It's not a innate natural right, but a choice, of a provider at a given point in time. It might change. Cost might be levied. Cost should be expecdted in free exchange. Especially as a westerner!

Aside from that - what age old institutions are wrecked by monopolies, or which ones are you talking about it? Genuinely curious.