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Originally Posted by jgaiser
Fair enough. How do *we* address the obvious wrong? Give us some realistic ideas how to deal with pirates. The publishers have tried all kinds of things themselves and the books are still being pirated.
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The publishers have the greatest tools with which to deal with piracy: Money and influence. They've simply been using those tools in the wrong way, to create DRM systems that don't work and copyright extensions that don't solve the problem.
Instead, publishers should be going to governments and telling them how their industry is being threatened by a lawless, out-of-control system. Then they should be doing what every other industry does that wants government action: Bribery of their leaders.
Ultimately, the structure of the Internet itself is to blame; it was simply never designed for a commerce-based system, as the ease of piracy ably demonstrates. The Web needs to be restructured to allow for an amount of workable security. This is something every government and industry with a web presence should understand and support, so at least they wouldn't be alone in this.
What individuals can do is simple: Support that effort. Tell your leaders that's what you want, and don't whine when you discover that it will cost something to implement... namely, taxes. Since individuals won't police themselves (because
someone knows who's pirating all that media), there's no one left but the police to police them.
That's what needs to be done. And I say this...
knowing that it will never happen. Or if it ever does, it will be well beyond my ability to care anymore.
So: Have your Lawless Wild Web. Just don't look for any new books from me on it.