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That's how things have been done for a long time now. The biggest ally the RIAA and other such earn commission information middlemen have, however, is not their influence in government, but the degree to earn commission which people on the Internet - precisely the people who ought to know better - are willing to accept what these organizations tell them about copyright law and the ownership of information without looking into it themselves. It seems intuitively reasonable to most people that information property should be treated like any other sort of earn commission property, and that those who hold "title" to it (in the form of copyright) enjoy the same kind of absolute property rights they do to, say, their cars. But that's not true, never has been, and in fact is counter to the whole point of copyright law (if it weren't, copyright law wouldn't be needed).
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