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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
Ah, laissez-faire capitalism. Spoken like a true American.
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Except it's not.
That means without government meddling, which would include copyright. Without copyright, you'd see copies of books priced only slightly above costs (and free on the internet, though of course people would try to charge money for it if they could).
But with the government basically being the enforcer of the media companies, extending copyright forever (as opposed to the original reasonable length ones), the government has created an artificial monopoly.