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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Laws are designed to protect the majority from the acts of the minority (not the other way around, as so many would like to think), and thereby to help preserve the democracy.
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No, that goes both ways. We do indeed have laws designed to protect the minority from the majority--that's what the whole civil rights movement was about. (However, for the most part, yes. Laws are mostly designed to prevent dangerous individuals from harming multiple others.)
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It is also possible to create a technology platform that all but eliminates piracy. Unfortunately, that won't happen under the present, open and insecure internet and computing base that the world uses.
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But we are approaching it, undeniably closer every day. ....
When that day comes, we will see a new, secure and monitor-able internet being created... and a public that will cheer for it.
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Not gonna happen; that's not how computers work.
Computers are devices created to copy, process, edit, and transfer data. That's their purpose. They are meant to move data securely--which means "only the intended recipient can open it," not "only acceptable types of data can be transmitted."
A "monitor-able" internet is one where every word typed goes through a human filter before being allowed to reach another screen... business would grind to a halt.
Setting aside the issues of "who watches the watchers" and the time-and-tech constraints of setting up a system where all encrypted data filters through some kind of gov't approval process, there's the not-insubstantial problem of existing technology.
As in, too many people have computers, routers, data lines, and the other hardware necessary to set up their own networks. Nobody *bothers* anymore, but that's because the internet works. Remove the internet as a way to transfer data easily, and ten thousand indie nets would pop up overnight. It'd be like the old-time BBS systems, only with faster modems and bigger storage drives.
The internet as we know it could be controlled (by destroying a lot of its use for businesses that rely on the ability to send data securely), with only the occasional datasplosion as some entry-level office-worker in an ultra-secure facility accidentally or deliberately releases a week's archives to the public. But that wouldn't stop swarms of tiny private networks from springing up... and getting bigger, because the only thing that stops them now is lack of motive.
TPB is public. Snearkernet is not.
Dead drops are public and unstoppable. Moving piracy farther away from Google's search engine won't prevent it--and won't slow it down enough to make media corporations happy.