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Originally Posted by Ankh
Our legal system is not designed to cope with massive violations of the rules (we declare martial law when it hits the fan), and that is the biggest problem at this time. The issue is not individual damage done by one person downloading ebook, song or movie, the issue is cumulative effect.
From that standpoint, takedown of Megaupload has its own logic, it is attacking the infrastructure that makes it easy to abuse copyright. For individual persecution of violators to work as a defence of the system, the "noise" level has to come down first.
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Taking that a bit further, however, we shouldn't have freeways because they facilitate people's violation of the speed limit. There aren't any lights, and the cops are only able to catch the most extremely flagrant offenders. Which would be fine by me, because I'm tired of people road raging and screaming obvious falsehoods like "Its not a speed limit, its a recomended speed!" and "The left lane is for speeders only, maggot!" in my face.
Although I notice that's gone way down since the Stand Your Ground trial began...