the RIAA tried to erase themselves from the internet? Why didn't we let them?

No you can't erase yourself from the internet. Free Speech means people can talk about you. They can talk about where you live, what you did, and all the things they hate about you. You may be able to erase a few things you posted here or there, but you can't erase history without trampling on peoples civil rights.

No they colluded on price as well. They came up with "suggested" tiers for new releases. For best sellers the price would be X on release day, Y after a few months, and then settle at Z.

Nope. Publishers were still setting wholesalse prices in the distributor model. When Amazon set price at $9.99 for a book with a $20 suggested retail price the publisher was making $9.99 on the book. Under agency model they set the prices at $15 and got to keep 2/3s. So they made $9.99 per book. Publishers made more money per book in the distributtor model because with lower prices there were more sales. But driving sales to digital would kill the whole point of having a publisher. Publishers only provide benifit to authors in the print world. They are dinosours and they know it. So they intentionally raised prices to slow digital down. And they used an agreement that made sure other publishers did the same.

Bookstores went out of buisness under Apples agency model not under Amazons. Agency model went into effect in 2010 Borders went out of buisness in 2011.

I don't understand the above statement. Obama is the democratically elected comander in chief. This memo that leaked was a memo to Congress. Congress is still democratically elected. Assasinating terrorists American or otherwise is hugely popular in the United States. Obama would not have been elected if he was against it. There is nothing paticullarly communist or capitalist about assasination either.

So What? They still exist and some branch of our goverment must deal with them. Leadership of an army located outside US soil is not going to turn themselves over to a trial. Do you want a show trail where the accused is convicted without them being present? Do you want Congress to vote on who we assasinate? Some sort of assasination warrent process where the courts approve assasinations proposed by the president? None of those is legal.

There is oversight. The president is comander in chief. He oversees the war. Not congress and not the courts.

Terrestrial radio doesn't pay the recording artist anything. Radio only pays the songwriter and the publisher.

I don't believe the above is true. The first-sale doctrine is part of US Anti Trust laws. Any effort to shut down second hand markets could be prosecuted under anti trust laws. The whole point of these locks is price fixing.

First sale doctrine in the USA was invented for a non-physical things. It was invented for books. For physical things the doctrine doesn't need to exist because copyright doesn't cover physical things. First Sale has always been about things that cost nothing to "replicate."

... not houses. Software and houses are not similer.

Anything sold in a web "store" with a "buy" button is a sale. These products even have 20% off "sales." If they were honest about licensing or renting out games then they would be labeled as such.

How long w ill that last after a court declares they have to change all the buy buttons to rent buttons. People don't want to rent a $9.99 game.

Not really. If Antique sells copies of the Game of Thrones season 2 for 1 penny then they could limit their losses by quite a bit.