It's definitely going to be a war to try and stop it.
It is one of those things that I wonder how they could try and contain things with how far stretched Bitcoins are networked wise, is there a global power switch?
That's what is exciting... there is no way to stop it, but they have to try. Government has to because of taxes, finance has to try because of fees. It's on. It's going to make napster v. music look like a thumb wrestling match. IMHO