[Swizec]

Simple, the law says so.

It's difficult to change in a decade what the law has been saying since 1662 (that's when copyright law came into the existence, around the time printing was invented).

What we've seen since then is simply a natural result of the slippery slope that resulted as a pretty good idea. It will take a long time to go back up such a slippery slope again.

[calcnerd256]

No, the law says that once they're in that position, that position has the power. The question was why we keep putting them in that position.