Thread: If You Think The Cost Of 'Piracy' Is High, What About The Cost Of Enforcement?
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Old 05-11-2012, 06:17 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by MikeB1972 View Post
So your idea is what?
Make the publishers pay for book piracy enforcement
The movie studios pay for movie piracy.
Car manufacturers for all traffic violations & upkeep of the roads
House builders / Locksmiths / Glaziers for burglaries (Depends on method of entry)
Shops for shoplifting
Microsoft/Apple for all computer releated crime


All these companies are already taxed and should be able to rely on law enforcement to, well, enforce laws.
I might have some sympathy for the corporations if the police didn't take 3 days to arrive after reporting a burglary and then just shrug and say there was nothing they could do because any evidence would have gone by now.

No shop owner expects an army of police to patrol their shop for them, they hire security guards at their own expense or buy cameras and a baseball bat/gun (depending on country).

Anyway, if what the corporations say about losing $50 trillion per day through piracy is true, surely they can afford to pay some of that money towards the cost of wiping it out?
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