How The Bureaucracy Saved The Japanese Music Industry

Bureaucracies hate change, we know, but Japan's version fuses the country's old-school island mentality with paperwork-heavy "administrative guidance" to create a protectionist force field around its music industry. Not only are anti-piracy laws enforced with righteous zeal, but the ability to legally "rent" music CDs has made most wannabe pirates err on the side of honesty.

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