It also lost out in 2012 on the listing of Manchester United, a football team, due to the desire of the controlling family to cash in without forfeiting control.
The Treasury, however, was reluctant to forfeit control of the country's crown jewels.
And fund investors forfeit control over whether or when to sell a particular holding, which has tax and investment consequences.
But it is widely anticipated it will be unable to meet its debt repayment obligations next March and could forfeit control of the music company to the bank.
As the book's title suggests, Mr King reckons the rise of the emerging giants means Western countries will increasingly forfeit control over their economic destiny.
Recognizing that glasnost is the key to acceptance among YouTube users, candidates virtually forfeited control over the context of their videos and allowed them to be embedded, critiqued, recut and satirized.
Along with Goldman, Colony was recently forced to forfeit control of the giant Atlantis resort in the Bahamas after failing to refinance the $2.5 billion in debt it took on to buy Kerzner International, a resort group.
After a day in which Republicans lost their grip on the House and appeared on the verge of forfeiting control in the Senate, some of the right's most prominent voices found little cause for discouragement.
In addition, MarketWatch noted that even if Yahoo retains control over a portion of its search queries, an outsourcing deal would nonetheless negate heavy investments made by Yahoo into its own Panama technology, while forfeiting control over much of the market.
All that could stop the value of information declining close to zero was the construction of anti-competition mechanisms: monopolies, aggressive patent and copyright laws, walled gardens of technology designed to make using free information difficult, networks designed to be used only if you forfeit control of your information to a megacorporation.
