Quote: "Its one way to stop copyright stealing"
I think you mean infringement ... but anyway, does anyone seriously believe that the court case against TPB or a buyout of TPB will actually reduce piracy?
It's just Napster in another guise. The increased publicity of these methods of getting media for 'free' will simply make it easier for more people who didn't know about it to use it.
If TPB changes it's policies regarding logging, or even shuts down completely, will simply scatter it's users to other services.
Increased monitoring of peer-to-peer traffic will drive users to different protocols and levels of encryption.
Nothing going on right now will make the average pirate change their ways.
Now for my rant
A significant part of the problem is due to increasing feelings of entitlement - and before you go off thinking that's simply something that only pirates are guilty of, think again.
How many of you own a legitimately bought CD and have ripped it to your PC, or your mobile phones, or have made a copy for playing in the car? Well, according to the majority of media companies,
you are a pirate too! They want you to pay for each additional copy of everything that you currently own.
The big problem right now is that it's almost impossible to go through your day without infringing on something. Go onto Youtube? Chances are you will watch something that infringes on someones copyright. Even big companies with the money to pay for the best lawyers are tripping over copyright law - for example, see the recent case against Microsoft, Yahoo and Real Networks over the distribution of music that
they thought they had already licensed. Even Obama managed to trip up over this when he gave an IPod containing 40 show tunes to Queen Elizabeth on his trip to the UK. If none of them can get it right with all of their lawyers/law-makers on hand, how do you expect to? How can you even be expected to?
It's the complexity, the creeping reduction in your and my rights and the ever increasing terms that copyright lasts for that I object to - it's the theft of things from the public domain and into copyright (let's see anyone even dare to try do anything based on Snow White or Cinderella) - it's the creep of copyright lobbying and laws that label me a criminal and a pirate for ripping music I've paid for onto my PC.
I believe that the current pervasiveness of piracy is in a very large part a reaction to that, albeit an unconscious reaction for the most part.
However, despite that rant, I am
pro-copyright. I believe in a reasonable recompense for work done. I do believe that what we have right now isn't at all reasonable, and is getting worse. The current hodge-podge of treaties, laws and licensing agreements foisted on the public is simply becoming unworkable.
