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Originally Posted by Happ
And at the same time take down the dark web, filesharers, warez sites, you name it. Something like this might work.
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I think you've got some odd ideas about how the internet works. Gonna work on taking down sneakernet after that?
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Why is it not done? Pirates do not want it because their livelihood and raison d’être would cease to exist.
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"Livelihood?" Are you under the impression people are making a living at filesharing?
Most of the "pirates" want digital information to work like physically-bound information: here's this thing I liked; I bet you'd like it too; take a look. The fact that they don't have to lose their copy to share one is a nifty feature--but if it didn't work that way, there'd still be plenty of filesharing. If the only way to share a file was to remove it from the original location when it moved to a new one, there'd still be networks of people sharing files, only with more complicated arrangements for when-and-who gets the file next.
And the publishers would still be freaking out about people getting access to content without paying for it, because they've never acknowledged that the vast majority of reading is *not* done with new, royalty-triggering books. That borrowed, remaindered and secondhand books are most of what gets read.
If publishers want to fight piracy, they need to figure out how to allow ebook sharing & resales. (And that won't "stop" piracy, but it'll remove the majority of the motivation for it.)