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"You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You"
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What an astoundingly weak argument. NO anti-social activity is stopped by enforcement. Giving out tickets for staying twenty minutes past the limit in a one hour parking spot will never stop that behavior either. And you can't quantify how much businesses lose when on-street spots are filled up by long-term parkers. But I still think parking regulations are by and large reasonable and should be enforced.
Something similar -- enforcement will never stop crime -- is true for every act of disrespect for law ranging all the way from murder to shoplifting a book otherwise destined to be pulped.
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I don’t think they want to fight it so much that they’ll change their entire distribution model on a dime, which would actually go a long way toward truly competing with piracy.
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Well, no. Similarly, a central city storekeeper may not dislike a day-long parker in front of her shop enough to become a web business, or move to the suburbs. So?
If you guys want to treat it like a parking ticket, I'm with you. Kim Dotcom getting probation will not upset me. But asking for proof of harm is impossible and unreasonable.