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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
It's win-win. They either get some money or another filthy pirate gets kicked off the internet. And as we all know, once all the pirates are off the internet the entertainment industry will be making an extra 50trillion per year in profit.
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They would get some money. They would kick off a few college students or wannabe activists lacking in brains. And they would, very likely, severely restrict the current torrent/p2p networking systems, and some of the filesharing sites.
And piracy would go *somewhere else*, because the purpose of computers is *making copies of data.* And there really is no way to make that more difficult or expensive, and anything that tries to inhibit "piracy" is going to inhibit the huge (and very profitable) social networking aspects of the internet.
I am hoping that eventually, someone at the government end of things gets a clue and realized that IP holders really need to start proving *damages* before they can demand massive crackdowns for infringements that may not exist. And claiming, "but but but ten thousand copies made!" is not the same as proving those were ten thousand lost sales. (I mean. Really. How much more money do they think Avatar could've made in the theatres? Has Harry Potter been scraping along with pennies because the ebooks are widely available?)