This blog post starts off with a long-winded, meandering rant. Do you have something more succinct and less rant-y to back up your assertion of

> And there are laws that prevent them from doing that.

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This blog is written by Cory Doctorow. Whether you agree with it or not, I think it's worth going to the end :-).

It's a long transcript, I would recommend watching/listening to the video.

> And there are laws that prevent them from doing that.

Better explained by Cory Doctorow, see link above.