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Originally Posted by Ramen
With illegal version, I mean a pirated version.
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We've had plenty of discussion about the distinctions between "piracy" and "illegality." I'll just say that I consider them to be essentially the same thing, and leave it at that.
And BTW, your earlier post about the realities of internet monitoring is exactly what I was alluding to at the beginning. Presently, encryption is the only thing preventing ISPs or the authorities from identifying packets and documents going back and forth. Though it's not a popular opinion (nor a desired one), the fact is that this one roadblock can be taken down.
Imagine a new government regulation that restricts the encryption systems allowed by all national ISPs to a specific set of schemes, for which they have a universal or "skeleton" key... and the authority to outright block anything using a different encryption method. This is not only conceivable, it is enforceable, given today's technology. And as I stated before, if the government comes to consider it the only way to solve a problem, I can see them applying it without hesitation, "for the public safety."
Naturally, they would apply something like that to control some more heinous crime, like child porn. But if it happened to make other transactions more secure, they would consider it a win-win...
Again, I'm not saying that this is a desired direction... just a very possible one.