And patients are the ones who pay—in the form of sky-rocketing prescription prices—for every pen that's handed out, every free theatre ticket, and every steak dinner eaten.

而患者则是以天价处方药的形式，为每一支派发的钢笔、每一张免费的戏票、每一次吃的牛排晚餐买单。

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Success in the free-copy world is not derived from the skills of distribution since the Great copy Machine in the Sky takes care of that.

在免费拷贝的世界里无法靠沿用分销技能而取得成功，因为天幕之下的巨大拷贝机(互联网)已经能做到了。

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The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

泥土把树木绑缚在身上作为服侍她的回报，天空却毫无所求，任它自由生长。

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If two strangers end up seated in one of the sky couches, they are free to flip up the panel and snuggle, too.

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The strong uptake isn't just because of Sky's recent broadband package, which was granted for free to anyone who already had Sky Digital TV and lives in an area already covered by broadband.

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Magness, a sly Texan in the Ross Perot mold, had started out with 700 customers in Memphis, Tex. in 1956, back when operators pulled TV signals free from the sky and pumped them into markets too puny for broadcasters or bureaucrats to bother with.

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