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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
It's too much of a tangled mess for them to pull that off, at this rate.
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Agreed. I think DRM just gets dropped eventually like it did with MP3s.
I do worry about all content going to some pay for access model in the future when we have super broad band everywhere, and they no long sell movies, music, books etc. You just pay for access to services that have all the content available where ever you go. But we're a long ways from that being remotely possible in any case.
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Originally Posted by Shaggy
If all you want is to make the smaller stuff criminal as well, the only thing that really does is put the government in the position of working to protect a private business's interests, rather than societies interests. I'm not sure what the point of that would be.
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Shoplifting is small stuff most of the time. It's illegal and people get charged with a crime for it. Thar's really protecting private businesses interests. Society isn't much harmed if people steal Snicker's bars etc.
Yeah the crime/harm is a bit more probably since the store lost a physical item, but it's still small stuff. And in the future if some content is only available digitally, and illegal download becomes the only way to "steal" something.
So yeah, I think they should go after the smaller uploaders who are getting files to 10, 20, 30 people (whatever cut off they want to use) and not only go after the extreme cases.
It's in societies interest to protect businesses so stores don't go under from theft, online stores don't go under as everyone is getting is free, so content creators don't lose incentive to put out new material when they're losing a ton of sales to piracy etc.
I see just as much societal incentive to enforce laws on illegal uploading etc. as I do most other minor misdemeanor crimes personally.