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The web and HTML (not the internet) was created as a collaborative medium, allowing disparate authors and readers to constantly evolve documents over time. The fact that the internet allows companies to deal directly with consumers via the web, be they article readers or online shoppers, is a misappropriation of that technology given that companies wish to protect their investments. HTML pages and the browsers that render them by definition have always allowed source to be modified and copied easily. If companies want to protect their investments a more appropriate medium is required e.g. browser like applications that don't inherently allow source to be viewed, modified or copied. Unfortunately, we are way past this point now and so it is something that has to be accepted.

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