And finally, behind this desire to see work enter the public domain and outrage at "rights stolen from the public" and stiffling of creativity, there's in fact a big deal of hypocrisy. What people really want are those works available for free. This phenomenon is getting worse and worse. First it's part of the music industry that's back to 19th century conditions, were independant artists find it more and more difficult to make a living because of piracy (artists would use to scrap a living selling 20 or 30 thousand copies now face 50,000 illegal downloads and 5000 sales - having to take day jobs to survive), more and more newspapers are vanishing because people seek their news from free sources and disregard the professional qualifications of real journalists - and the role the press plays in democracies be damned, it's getting more and more difficult to buy works in certain genre (ex: anime) in brick and mortar shops because illegal downloads have crashed the niche markets, and now with e-readers, it's book piracy that's becoming commonplace.