Another possible point of resistance in London and Washington may have been strategic: the desire not to recapitulate the problems of Diego Garcia, part of the British Indian Ocean territory.

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Doing it that way seems to recapitulate, in almost poetic fashion, the mistake publishers made a decade ago in putting their content free online, creating an expectation among consumers that proved hard to break once those same publishers started to think about charging.

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