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Originally Posted by ardeegee
That will change when, instead of the RIAA thugs trying to destroy 9-year-olds and grandmothers with multi-million dollar lawsuits, they try to get them in prison. You can't suddenly criminalize something done by hundreds of millions of people of every age, race, creed, and economic class and expect it to work.
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I don't quite see it this way. I don't believe hundreds of millions of users are doing filesharing on the darknet. Maybe hundreds of thousands, at most. The vast majority do believe that people deserve to be paid for music, books, software, etc. And if there are grandmothers among the filesharers they are more likely to number in the hundreds. The 9-year-olds just don't know what they are doing and can't be prosecuted even if they murder someone. But as always, parents are responsible. But anyway, most filesharers fit quite a different profile. Not exactly people of "every age, race, creed, and economic class".
But I do share privacy concerns.