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Originally Posted by BoldlyDubious
If Bill cannot be trusted, Mary should not trust him. If she does, she has a responsibility in the illegal distribution of her file, along with Bill.
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If you are operating from the position of "trust no one" then you and I will never find common ground. Mary can't tell a pirate by looking at them, and neither can you or I. The most rampant file-sharer I know of is an otherwise perfectly normal human being that happens to think it's okay to share digital content. I would trust him with my life, but not with my ebooks, but it took months of knowing him to find out that about him when a relevant conversation came up. Most people don't have those conversations - it doesn't come up. Most people don't think about piracy
at all, let alone question whether a given person might be a pirate.
I'm interested in hearing the part of your plan that specifies what content providers (or someone, anyway) will be required to do to educate people like Mary about piracy and how to keep their purchases from being stolen. Surely that is in there somewhere, yes? Because otherwise you're holding people responsible for not knowing things they weren't given the opportunity to know.
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Originally Posted by BoldlyDubious
It's worth the effort because it's quick. Because it's easy. Because the risk is essentially nil. This is why uploading files is something like a sport for some people, or so it seems to me.
If you have to write and debug efficient malicious code and perform criminal actions to get the files to upload, it seems unlikely to me that many people will continue doing that for "fun"...
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There are some brilliant minds out there who do these things because they can. Rather than back down from it, they will rise to the occasion for the challenge of doing so. There is a thrill in getting around a given system. The current uploaders don't have to be the ones to do it, they merely need to take advantage of the work of the coders that will.