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Originally Posted by stonetools
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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My point is it's beyond organized control. I understand how distressing this is, but like Hiroshima, once the Genie came out of the bag, there was no going back.
Piracy is not merely a some organized group of criminals, but everybody with a computer is a potential criminal. They have the means to pirate. And I don't mean internet access, I mean a computer. All computers have permanent storage, and any permanent storage can be used for piracy. And will be. And nothing short of a police state or destroying all the computers will stop it.
And your task is to figure out how to make people pay for something they've been receiving free all their lives, and can create privately themselves for nearly free. Because that is what you're demanding. Your system is based on the (now obsolete) fact that people
couldn't create their own copy of I.P. easily and cheaply.
And that world is
gone. It isn't coming back. And some of the leading large producer have started basing their models on this new reality. And that's why SOPA failed. The people that have moved on are now as powerful politically as those attached to the old reality.