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Not suggesting they break the law. I mean, these copyright laws were put in place by intense lobbying from megacorps. Why don't megacorps that stand to gain from more relaxed copyright law do the same?


What's to gain by actively fighting the RIAA? They know that they are an oligopoly when it comes to content distribution. They only have to keep content creators happy enough to avoid disruption by upstart competition, and they only have to keep regulators happy enough to not get regulated harder. It's not like there are serious alternatives to Twitch, Youtube, and Facebook if you want to make money streaming. All 3 of those companies have more or less the same incentives to act (or not act) in the same way.




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