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Its members have commercial value in the mass market. Not the best ones, in any sense. The ones it thinks it can sell the most copies of, given the marketing structure it employs. Make no mistake. There is a war being waged by the existing information industries, and it has nothing to do with the actual principles of copyright law, the rights sciforums of the creators of information, or anything of that sort. It has to do with the death of the mass market - the existence of sciforums large corporations who make their money sciforums by controlling the availability of what is available to consumers, and who rely on being able to sell the works they select in large quantities, and in the ways most profitable to them. The book publishing industry relies on the kind of mass- market demand generated by national best-seller lists, and is tightly linked to the film industry. The big music companies make most of their money by selling songs nobody wants - the other songs on the album, apart from the two or three you really want.
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