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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
It's not internet serious business.
It's just that the legal system will have to adept to deal with issues of theft in the digital age when many products are only available in digital versions.
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They do. They're called computer misuse statutes, for when people hack into systems and delete things. They are a different class of offence to unauthorised copying.
Your "adept" isn't necessary.
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People keep wanting to threaten that resisting such stuff will lead to the end of intellectual property etc. That will never happen
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Oh yea? You *are* aware of how fast the PirateParties are growing, right? They have 2 MEP's already. And they don't care you what you think about it "never happening".
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People want to get paid for their work and don't want people enjoying it for free
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Yes, but there are realistic approaches involving not treating the customer as the enemy, and reaching the maximum viable market rather than trying to drain every drop out of an ever-shrinking number of people willing to be exploited.
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Laws will adapt, we'll figure out ways to protect peoples digital products and consumers will adapt as well over time.
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Read the Microsoft darknet paper. You can't realistically stop the darknet without crackdowns which make China's censorship seem like a mild breeze on a sunny day compared to a storm. If you are calling for that, and frankly you're calling for the end of IP because people will simply
stop buying IP.
That attitude is part of the problem. Until you're willing to admit to that, you're simply feeding the moral panic which only serves the darknet community's membership numbers. I work in an IP dependent industry, and it's shocking how many people don't bother to read up on the basics, or to listen to what the other side is actually saying.
Things like ACTA which spring from your views are the sure way to alienate the entire public on the concept of IP, and I can't blame them in any way, shape or form: And it's going to splash over onto the sensible, crushing our profits as well.
(Not more, as big business will like to claim, and probably actually less, proportionally: but badly enough!)