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Old 04-26-2011, 06:56 PM   #258
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How do prisons work in America? In the UK they are funded through taxes and it costs £40,000 per year for each prisoner. You would need to be very sure that strategy was likely to work before you could implement it, the costs would be astronomical. 20 years in prison would be £800,000 per person, and even if each "hub" only has one sysop you're looking at nearly £2million just for 2 dozen of them.
Hey, the cheapest option is always to do nothing at all. If society is serious about protecting the IP rights of creators, they'll do as I have suggested. If society isn't serious, it will choose the cheapest option, and creators will continue to suffer
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