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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
And much in the same way that the government protects your private property in exchange for tax revenues, media companies and retailers pay their taxes in exchange for their businesses to be protected.
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You're acting as if copyright laws, and the ability to enforce them, didn't exist until Hadopi, DEA, etc were enacted. All those new laws did was introduce the presumption of guilt upon accusation, and shift the burden of cost from the corporation to the consumer. As far as I can see, none of those corporations have passed on the vast savings in running costs it will save them.
You said high fines for people guilty of unauthorised downloading, as if that would be a bad thing. At least that would make these laws self-financing, so ordinary tax payers wouldn't be hurt by them. But first you would need to reintroduce the presumption of innocence and the right to a fair trial.