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> People read into this and think big Sony/BMG money but in reality it's tiny contractors.

There's a general trend for people to treat the happenstance actions of individual workers as fully-intentioned top-down decisions of a unified, hivemind multi-billion dollar entity. A previous employer of mine has been in the news for things where a shortcut by a single lazy engineer was interpreted as a political attack on free software.