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Comment Re:Free Market? LoL and more LOL (Score 1) 688

The Whiskey Rebellion wasn't about who got to make whiskey. Anyone could if they were willing to pay the tax. A better example would be the Opium Wars in which foreign businesses wanted special rights to sell opium in China, against local law, a trade not permitted to native Chinese.

Comment Re:Where there's a will, there's a way (Score 2) 177

Demand keeps it in existence.

Really, I don't agree with copyright infringement in all cases, but why should I have to pay for cable AND HBO just to watch Game of Thrones?

Because it costs over $1M dollars per episode to produce it. So if you want something to watch that's better than Sharknado then somebody needs to be paying for it. That said, anything more than 28 years old is out of copyright according to the original Constitution, so I have a hard time understanding why it still has 70 years or so of restrictions.

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