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Isn’t this whole argument just about the publishing houses struggling to find a viable business model against a perfect storm of digitization, Internet distribution and globalization? They are using copyright to get governments involved, essentially trying to protect their old business model.
The easy thing for government is to throw up their hands and resort to draconian methods to get the whole problem off their plate rather than waiting patiently for a viable, new business model to take hold. Governments do tend to behave this way. They have a lot more to think about than book sales.
I think we are overlooking the fact that a viable business model addressing these problems already exists: it’s Amazon. It may not be the only or even the best model but the longer the traditional publishing houses fail to compete the harder it will be to catch up.
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