And after digging through the comments... Yup it's private equity again. PE buyouts should be considered criminal fraud.

Who are they defrauding? Everything being done here is legal. There is no victim.

	▲	otikik 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The commons. They profit by making everyone else worse off. We should have a specific name for that sort of economical behavior. “Leeches”?
	▲	inglor_cz 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It is a nasty aftereffect of the copyright law expanding like cancer. I would gladly go back to the older 14+14 system, even though I have nontrivial income from royalties. In my opinion, copyright should motivate people to create new things, not one cash cow that they then will milk for eternity.