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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Won't stop sneakernet, private encryption, VPNs, ect.
Won't stop the public domain, either...
Won't stop somebody camcordering a DVD, at home.
Shall I go on?
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Homicide laws don't prevent all murders , either. That doesn't mean we just give up on homicide laws.
The purpose of enforcing anti piracy laws is not to eradicate piracy: it is to suppress it to a low enough level so that it doesn't crowd out innovation and legitimate business activity.
The Trichordist website has testimonies from artists who have just given up on creating new art because its not worth it to any longer because of piracy and file-sharing. One artist writes:
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The pundits who claim that the internet “leveled the playing field” for musicians got just that: a level field. A whole lot of mediocrity (yay, we won the DIY revolution!) Unfortunately, the modern fan-based patronage hasn’t panned out the same way the old Royalty-based patronage did, it’s still a situation where the rich (corporations, usually) pay and everybody else listens for free—to those who get the production paid for by advertising!
For most artists it’s a case where they pay for their own production costs themselves and then a few people buy the music and everyone else listens for free. There are of course a few lottery winners in the fan-based patronage, touted as examples by tech writers in various blogs of course, but there are as many of these as actual lottery winners—and certainly those are the ones to garnish the media attention, why wouldn’t they be?
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