Electronic technologies have greatly reduced the costs of distributing information, but for content owners, that’s been a mixed blessing. Just as their costs of content distribution have shrunk and their ease of distribution has increased, the same is true for parties who obtain and redistribute that content unlawfully, to the competitive disadvantage of the content owners. That equation has been repeated over and over, reflected in numerous litigation battles fought over the last several decades. One of those battles has been fought by major financial firms that have sought to regain control over the dissemination of the stock analysts’ research reports that are central to their business model.