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On which side indeed should the public sympathy be when the question is whether some book as popular as Robinson Crusoe, or the Pilgrim's Progress, shall be in every cottage, or whether it shall be confined to the libraries of the rich for the advantage of the great-grandson of a bookseller who, a hundred years before, drove a hard bargain for the copyright with the author when in great distress?

Det inträffade något liknande exemplet med kranvatten i Bolivia, fast det var istället kranvattenbolaget som hävdade monopol på allt vatten inklusive regnvatten: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochabamba_protests_of_2000