"None of these revenue streams can be sustained if news organizations are unable to protect their news reports from the wholesale copying and redistribution by free-riders like Meltwater, " the filing said.
FARC's demands for sweeping agrarian reform and a redistribution of wealth, coupled with an end to unchecked free-market policies, must be unpalatable to Mr Pastrana's centre-right administration and its foreign backers.
Instead, it is the much more Machiavellian question of how to build a case for income redistribution, which is altogether the wrong question to be asking in a free society.