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While I mostly agree with you, there is a third option none of us really want to consider. And that's that HBO/MPAA/etc get so efficient at catching and prosecu
by nobleach 14y ago
While I mostly agree with you, there is a third option none of us really want to consider. And that's that HBO/MPAA/etc get so efficient at catching and prosecuting piracy, that piracy itself dies off.
Now we at first think, "this is impossible, where there are bits, there are ways to copy said bits". But don't forget What happened with DirecTV at the turn of the century. They implemented an "unhackable" card that stopped all satellite piracy on their network. No biggie, pirates just moved over to the hackable DishNetwork and began purchasing FTA boxes and hacking them to emulate cards. Dish spent a ton of money implementing their new "unhackable" Nagra3 encryption and mostly eradicated the problem. Sure you have a few people doing some sort of private card sharing... but effectively, satellite piracy is dead. I don't want to sound like chicken little... but let's at least consider that these draconian ways could persist and push us back to the dark ages.
- moheeb 14y agoSatellite piracy is not dead. I'm pretty sure anybody on Usenet could be downloading those very same shows right now. It seems the pirates just tow your ship to land and rape and pillage from there.
- sabat 14y agoAnd that's that HBO/MPAA/etc get so efficient at catching and prosecuting piracy, that piracy itself dies off. There are just far too many ways to evade detection. Remember, bits copy easily. Controlling that is very difficult, near-impossible, and with encryption and other tactics, it's darn near impossible to detect. Reality is not on their side. EDIT: data point here: an alternate Internet. Imagine what would happen if the media companies really did start to succeed in controlling and suing "piracy" out of existence. This is what would happen: http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan