"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." Edmund Burke, 1729-1797. It's amusing to think how often we use that quote in one form or another and never take heed of the advice it tries to imbue upon us. Back in 1908, Thomas Edison tried to take control of the movie industry through litigation, patents and controlling film distribution. In 1915, he and his fellow cohorts even managed a Supreme Court sanction that declared Content Regulation did not violate the First Amendment.
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