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Originally Posted by stonetools
Actually, copyright is quite enforceable if the courts and law enforcement have jurisdiction.
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It is?
What's my recourse if I find out some other blogger who lives in my city has been copying my posts and compiling them into ebooks for sale?
To whom do I report this crime? I assure you, the Oakland PD doesn't want to touch it. Is it a state crime or a federal one? If I report it at the federal level, can I be assured of a trial within a few months?
Nevermind the international issues... if I discover that my co-workers have a "movie pool" wherein everyone who wants to participate either pays $5/month or acquires a movie to share, and they're copying and exchanging movies on flash drives, to whom do I report this crime?
There is no part of copyright law that's "easily enforceable" if jurisdiction is not an issue. Copyright law is a complex civil court affair, for the most part, and mostly out of reach of the average citizen. Criminal copyright infringement is generally ignored if it doesn't involve thousands of dollars of material; while "single ebook distributed to 20 people over Megaupload" is technically infringement, there is *no* effort to go after those uploaders.
The media companies are trying to go after the platform hosts because copyright law is *not* easily enforceable against the people directly infringing.