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Piracy is already illegal. Just like child pornography is already illegal. There is no need to make extra laws about it, and whenever somebody purports to write
by ahoyhere 15y ago
Piracy is already illegal. Just like child pornography is already illegal. There is no need to make extra laws about it, and whenever somebody purports to write a law to "prevent" a crime that is already illegal, you can know that that law will contain terrible, overreaching things.
There's a reason that there's no law that holds telephone companies responsible for law-breaking which is organized over their wires / cell towers. It's ludicrous.
- snowwrestler 15y agoJust making something illegal doesn't prevent it from happening--there also need to be laws providing mechanisms for investigation and enforcement. The phone companies have all sorts of legal duties to law enforcement. If a court orders it, they have to assist with taps, traces, geolocation, call records, etc. As you say, piracy is already illegal. And we know there's a ton of casual piracy that goes on--see: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/its-official-america-a-land-of-young-casual-pirates.ars http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/its-official... So the question is: what mechanisms of enforcement can dampen casual piracy and yet be acceptable to most tech companies?