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The law is like a magic spell invisibly binding the hands of people by soft power and binding the hands of people through the law enforcement by hard power. Th
by static_noise 11y ago
The law is like a magic spell invisibly binding the hands of people by soft power and binding the hands of people through the law enforcement by hard power.
The problem with hard power is, that it is expensive. If it wasn't police states would work wonderfully. Instead, the government needs cooperation of the people by formulating the law in ways that are acceptable to the people. By providing thought systems propagated through school and media appropriate patterns are engraved in the nations minds. People need to either think "this law is just" or "i don't want to go to jail for that" or "i don't want to lose everything that i hold dearly" or "i don't want my family to starve" for the spells of the law to work.
We are more and more coming to a point where the proponents of copyright law must either step up the propaganda, the enforcement or change the law.
- coldtea 11y ago>The problem with hard power is, that it is expensive. Only for total enforcement, and only when the technology is not advanced enough to make even that cheap. Here's a hypothetical example: with widespread internet surveillance, you could just charge people immediately on the first sign of them pirating something -- take the money off of their bank accounts/salary, kind of the same way one gets a traffic ticket through camera surveillance, but even faster. >If it wasn't police states would work wonderfully. Who said that they don't? It's often not the police state that fails, it is the state in general, and for other reasons.