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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
And that cat was let out of the bag by technology. The only way to successfully put it back into the bag is to eliminate the technology. But the technology is so valuable, that eliminating is just not going to happen. What the internet did was facilitate access to materials to be pirated. Prior piracy was somewhat limited by the amount of materials available. (I.E. somebody could pirate their friend's materials, but not somebody's halfway across the world. Now they can...)
Let me revise and expand my remarks...Before the internet, I didn't know or communicate with anybody who lived outside the US. Now I communicate with people all over the world. (Great Britain, France, South America, Austrailia, The Far East, ect...) The Internet allowed/created this. So today, when I might have swapped files with Dave three doors down, I might want to swap with Jaques in Paris, or Herr Docktor Franz in Munich, Janie in Perth. Same person to person (that used to be invisible), but now across the Globe. And while the internet is the easiest way, it's not the only way. The person-to-person links aren't going away, so I doubt the sharing will...
(This does not imply that I share. It is just a descriptive example.)
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What is your point? Just because people now have the tools to easily do it (pirate), they can't stop themselves? So when shops take away the surveillance cameras almost everybody would get in on the shoplifting action, not just a few?