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Originally Posted by taustin
And, for what it's worth, yammering like yours is why publishers keep getting away with ever longer copyright terms and stricters laws to enforce them.
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No, they get those because they lobby and pay politicians to make it happen. In the UK, our version of the RIAA had a clause inserted into recent law that basically said anyone accused of illegal downloading is guilty until they can prove otherwise. There will also be a fee to pay before you can attempt to prove your innocence. The excuse for that was that it would make it cheaper to implement the law, but the real reason is likely to be because the standard of evidence against downloaders would never stand up in court.