Whose shill are you, anyway? It ISN'T left and right. They're all together for the same things and you know it.

what would "preparing for it" look like?

I suggest going back and reading books like "The Jungle".
Same thing over there, and nothing happens until someone takes a stand.

I hate to say this, but George R R Martin is a fat, old, unhealthy man with 8-12 years of writing still to finish his particular series.

As The Fed is my witness I thought turkeys could fly!

Oh, trust me, those laws didn't come cheap. Companies paid very good money for them!

As a financial professional, I find your tone uninformed and... annoying.

Buying out a company under a single shareholder is basically impossible. Companies themselves often hold large amounts of stock in order to prevent things like a hostile takeover. People would have to GIVE UP their shares in order to control the company. So, your idea is misplaced as is your sarcasm.

Buying rights to music and movies, literally paying off people in order to take back our culture, which we then release permanently to the public, seems like an alternative.

Have a better solution?

Yeah, if you're looking at them all the time.
Type much?

Why not use Kickstarter?

Buy the rights to as many of these things as possible, then let them go to the public.

I have two hands you insensitive clod!