But how likely is this?
This I don't know and I think is impossible to know for now. This is a "social" question/"question of trust" rather than a technical one. I think it is impossible to know the answer before either the copyright supporters fight against us much more openly than now, or something really revolutionary or disastrous causes them to lose power. Most terrible activities of the authoritarian regimes of the past typically became known only after the regimes have fallen.