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Wait. This is YCombinator right? Why on earth does no-one create a startup to make buying digital copies easier wherever you live? Why is that so hard?


It's actually part of #1 on YCombinator's list of ideas they'd like to fund: http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

But it's a tricky problem, because of the heavy involvement of intellectual-property laws and tangled webs of existing licensing arrangements (defended by large incumbent players with large legal teams).


Because it is an artificial problem (created by rent seekers) not a technical problem.

Artificial problems are murderously difficult to crack and often disappears when the underlying technology shifts.


Business development and licensing efforts.


Step 1: Get worldwide rights to desirable content.

No one has ever gotten past step one.




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