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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I don't agree, because I say there's no secret to how the digital environment works. We know exactly how the digital environment works: Digital files can easily be copied and redistributed by anonymous users who believe they cannot be caught and should not be punished.
Copyright isn't "impeding" anything; it's being impeded by scofflaws. Copyright doesn't "work" because individuals don't respect it, and governments don't have the power to enforce it in the digital realm; and knowing individuals can flagrantly violate it without the expectation of punishment, violate it they do.
In that light, only improving the ability to identify scofflaws and punish them for violations will make copyright work.
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I doubt it. There have been big trophy cases before, none of those had any affect. In France, if you get
accused of downloading more than 3 times your family gets disconnected from the internet, but that hasn't made much difference to downloading rates either. It has increased the demand for proxies and encryption though, so those type of companies will benefit if the idea goes global.
What would have helped, if they hadn't already allowed a whole generation to grow up used to downloading whatever they want would have been education. But it's pretty much too late for that now. There's been a paradigm shift in the way people consume entertainment over the last 15 years or so, and the entertainment industry are only just starting to adapt to that shift. Once they have fully adapted I doubt casual piracy will be much of a problem.