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Originally Posted by Riffhard
I actually think the governments will do something to eliminate or drastically reduce piracy by then.
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I've been saying the same thing, but a lot of people disagree. The way I see it is piracy is growing out of control exponentially every year. There is going to be a breaking point where some government "panel" will come in to rescue the industries effected, (music, movie, software, adult industries).
In someways, it's already in the works. Recently the recording industry dropped its policy of filing lawsuits against individual infringers in favor of partnering with ISPs to filter for unlawful content.
Congress has already introduced an amendment that would allow for "reasonable network management" practices such as deterring unlawful activity, including copyright infringement.
If something like this happened it would mean a huge reduction in traffic to any site that is being "filtered" and on a very large scale, (not just one ISP). Of course we are not talking about eliminating it, but greatly reducing it to the general population.
However, something like this would be bittersweet, would we really want some government panel to have the ability to filter what sites we can see?