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"From the beginning, government and government agencies have been subject to capture. They are more likely captured when a powerful interest is threatened by either a legal or technical change. That powerful interest too often exerts its influence within the government to get the government to protect it. The rhetoric of this protection is of course always public spirited; the reality is something different. Ideas that were as solid as rock in one age, but that, left to themselves, would crumble in another, are sustained through this subtle corruption of our political process. RCA had what the Causbys did not: the power to stifle the effect of technological change." -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology And The Law To Lock Down Culture And Control Creativity. (Thanks to fidhle who told me about this book and kept reminding me about it until I got around to downloading it. This probably won't be the only passage I quote by the time I finish reading it.)