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Originally Posted by xianfox
2) Laws were never designed to PREVENT someone from committing a crime, only to provide for the PUNISHMENT of those who do.
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This is true...
security is designed to prevent someone from breaking the law, in some cases. In others, security may not be able to prevent someone breaking the law, but it can provide enough information to allow for that person to be caught and punished. Security cameras are such an example.
In the case of digital files, security would come in the form of software that could identify a document as it traveled the web, and that could identify where that file originated, and where it was received. Such security would operate "invisibly" to the user, but would provide enough data to identify and punish someone who illegally disseminated a file. (It would not prevent the owner from making copies for themselves... just from giving them to others via a web transaction.)
These security methods are already in the works (mainly as applied to child porn, but the music industry is also keeping a weather eye on it).