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Originally Posted by SeaKing
In a lot Socialistic countries especially in the Nordic countries where they have long fed off the fatted calf of the North Sea Oil Reserves (which are now disappearing) they had a lot of these kind of laws to protect (i.e. fatten "artists"). Artists being authors, painters, etc.
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The only Nordic country with sizable oil income is Norway. Finland doesn't even have any North Sea coastline and Sweden's is very small. Don't let that deter you from spouting nonsense, though. I just wonder why each and every forum has to be afflicted with some Americans babbling about "Socialism".
BTW, if you had ever done business with Swedish companies you would know that despite their affable image Swedish business people are very tough and extremely profit driven, far more so than many corporate suits of US companies.
I can only understand this problem faced by Swedish libraries if they have not limited the number of a given book that can be loaned at a given time. This is obviously a design flaw that has to be changed (what would they do in case of a Harry Potter kind of blockbuster hitting the shelves?). $ 3 / download also seems to be a very high fee.