Along with iTunes, it provided an IP managedsolution to the panic caused by Napster and other file sharing sites that seemed to have no respect for creative ownership.
They're either intended to punt a thorny issue off the agenda for a while, or else to hammer out an emerging solution, as the famous 1983 Social Security Commission managed to do.
This is, as I say, a sensible idea, it addresses a real problem (the 2008 unpleasantness was more about runs on banks than anything else) and the only great surprise is that governments have managed to identify a real problem and come up with a real solution to it.
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