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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
This is not going to change. It's only going to get worse. (You may not like it, shucks, <I> may not like it. But either way, it isn't going to change reality.) I.P. was (and is) an artifact of mass-production methodelogies, and live and dies by them. When there is a large economic profit to be gained by breaking laws, those laws get broken. Eventually, they get repealed.
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An interesting post Sir Edward
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I wonder, though, if technological changes to the production of IP products can't also help the original producers as well as the copiers. It would be very easy to individualise each mass produced digital item (unlike trad. mass production), so that it's onward existence could be traced (thereby possibly indentifying who is duplicating it and blacklisting/punishing the purchasers). (But such avenues don't seem to appeal to producers, who see DRM as a more restrictive approach which they presumably think could increase sales volumes - rather than a genuine attempt to prevent piracy.)
If I was a producer, I'd also wonder about the benefits of flooding the darknet with malware-ridden versions of my product - thereby undermining it's credibility as a source of 'safe' copies.