[DawnFalcon]

I'm strictly pragmatic on this issue. It's very important, at this stage of societal development (when we have a market with partial scarcity) that the companies bridging the gap between the two types of market are exposed to that market.

What happens now is going to set the rules for post-scarcity markets, and the degree of control being claimed by some companies would inevitable snowball to a scary degree, and the alternatives being offered by the darknet communities would lead to anarchy.

Trying to pretend that societal pressure will force publishers to change when their current solution-of-preference is to attempt to distort the market such that their rights are enforced by big brother is simply naive. If they cannot compete by adopting a market-acceptable business model, then they need to fail. This is, afaik, the best possible compromise available in the current situation.