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The article suggests that, due to clearly illegal practices established before a law could be enforced (squatting, in this case), the laws had to be reworked to essentially make the illegal people legal.
It says little about the fact that, once the illegal people were made legal, and the law was later capable of being enforced, illegal squatting was no longer tolerated, and the practice largely ended. Today in America, if you want land, wherever you are, you have to buy it from someone. Period.
Following this logic, what we can expect is a period during which past indiscretions (aka, illegally downloading files) will be overlooked, until an enforceable copyright law can be established. By enforceable, I mean a law that is largely accepted by all as being fair, which is crucial to making enforcement practical and effective.
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