In an abstract sense, you may be right. In practice, authors sign away the ownership to a publisher in a profit sharing deal and it ends up protecting the publ

In an abstract sense, you may be right. In practice, authors sign away the ownership to a publisher in a profit sharing deal and it ends up protecting the publishers profit. Makes me wonder of there is a business model for protecting user data, by managing any user-business data relation/permission and hunting down any company who is inappropriately using data from any member and collecting the fines. That would be the first protection racket that I'd like...