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Originally Posted by CommanderROR
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My opinions is that the internet took many governments and corporations by surprise. Most did not anticipate it's quick rise and also did not forsee how it creates a truly globalized society. Now, panic mode kicks in,....
And one other thing:
DRM, copy-protection and similar stuff .....
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Actually it started well before the internet and is due to contract law. The lawyers and publishing companies (this goes clear back to the beginnings of the printing press and perhaps before to the music publishing business). The contracts try to intentionally restrict rather than allow and this is always the negotiation when determining the publication rights. The publisher of course wants all rights, the author (or agent for the author) wants to restrict or "reserve" all rights possible - e.g. movie rights, foreign sales, etc etc. So contracts are written in such a way as to allow on certain specified rights to the publisher. A publisher might have world print rights but no electronic rights what-so-ever. This is where all the sticky situations come from at least IMO.
DRM is just evil.