10th June 2010, 08:38 AM
GnomeKing Wrote:What possible reason could a commercial company justify for deploying copyright laws, other than to protect their failings, or hide the missing corners from disgruntled Competitors?
Umm, perhaps precisely because they are a commercial company? Said work has material value to them, so they will wish to protect that. It's a basic commercial imperative and you don't need to go looking for conspiracies at all.
'Reality,' sa molesworth 2, 'is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder.'