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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Then you go after those people again. Selling physical bootleg items is much higher risk and you need much more infrastructure. Sure, there will always be crime. But you can't just throw up your hands and say "ok, we will just go ahead and let you break the law since we can't totally eradicate crime". You keep crime to a minimum and everyone wins (except the criminals, of course!). It doesn't take too much effort, actually. Small scale criminals scare easily.
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Precisely. To say "there's no point in taking actions against criminals because it won't eradicate crime" is entirely wrong. Sure there are other pirate sites, and the sort of low-lifes who think it's cool to take other people's stuff without paying for it will probably always find a way to do so, but that doesn't mean that the problem shouldn't be tackled by using the means that the law provides.