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Originally Posted by MikeOxlittle
Piracy is here to stay, plain and simple.
Censor one site and ten will sprout up in its place.
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Yes, but advertisers will stay away, and the sites are being pushed into the darker corners of the internet. And you go after the big ones, one by one. It will be come less easy to make money off other people's works and site operators will lose interest. Many casual would-be pirates won't find the new sites.
You can't eradicate hard core piracy, but you can go after the money. Which is what TPB people and similar sites are really after. Piracy will not go away but it will be small time business. Relegated to obscurity, where it belongs.
You deal with piracy the way you deal with petty theft. You make it more difficult, more dangerous, less profitable. This way you greatly reduce it, you will never make it totally go away, of course. This approach should go hand in hand with making legal buying easier, though.