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Originally Posted by Rizla
It seems to me that from a purely technical aspect, piracy can be stopped, but only at the cost of damaging democracy.
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It's not "damaging democracy" if the majority agrees to it.
Piracy can't be stopped at the cost of destroying the usefulness of the internet as a social and data exchange system. Piracy can possibly be more limited than it is now without that, but attempts to "end" it, as opposed to convincing people it's not worth the hassle (not, "convincing people they will face dire consequences if they visit pirate sites"), are going to fail.
A lot of media companies seem to think that (1) if they stop piracy, people will pay them for all the content that's being downloaded for free, and (2) the rules they want enacted to stop piracy will have no notable deleterious effects on their own business models.
They keep forgetting that "not-inspected data exchange" includes private emails, and that a desire for encrypted data exchange isn't limited to hackers and pirates.