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history lesson for copyright holders wanting new legislation to protect them
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And sure, Parliament agreed in its time that the stagecoach and railroad industries were important. But Parliament made the mistake of seeing yesterday as the present time and eternal: those industries were only important before the technology shift that the car brought, a shift which was already underway. The special laws that these industries pushed through ? with emphasis on the Red Flag Act ? caused the inevitable technology shift to delay in United Kingdom, and therefore, the car industry of the United Kingdom lost considerable competitive edge against its foreign competition, being ten to fifteen years late into the game.
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http://torrentfreak.com/the-red-flag...f-1865-110626/
don't agree with the final arguement
death is not the only option
you could change to the new medium like mpaa did with the vcr
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