However, the internet is more than a publishing medium, it's a communication medium. That makes it possible to collaborate on a lot more than just code.
So the disintermediation effect is flowing back into the scientific community, as well as into governance, education, service providers, everywhere.
The genie is out of the bottle, and even the most draconian proposals for containment (many of them coming from democratic governments in nominally free societies) won't stop that.