DamianJ

My bad. I assumed you would want to stop piracy throughout the world. Clearly, if you do not do this, then piracy doesn't stop. You can use the internet to connect to servers on other countries. Maybe you haven't thought your position through. Pal.

Really? You are unaware of this. Hehe. Brilliant.

http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/

Same with videogames

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28682836
http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/NPD_sales_figures

And music too!

The digital music business internationally saw a sixth year of expansion in 2008, growing by an estimated 25 per cent to US$3.7 billion in trade value. Digital platforms now account for around 20 per cent of recorded music sales, up from 15 per cent in 2007. Recorded music is at the forefront of the online and mobile revolution, generating more revenue in percentage terms through digital platforms than the newspaper (4%), magazine (1%) and film industries (4%) combined.
http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_...s/dmr2009.html

In fact, music sales increased in 13 markets in 2009:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...ts-in-2009.ars

Astounding isn't it? One would think that, seeing as you can download all the 360 games you could want, how you can download the latest movie often BEFORE it out, and that it is painfully easy to nick music that all these industries would be absolutely on their knees. Screwed. Unable to exist cos of evil pirates. But somehow, they are all smashing all previous records?

How do you think THAT works?

Unless, hang on a min, what if they all made up all the figures about piracy all along!?!

"On the government side they looked at three figures which have been widely used to argue in favor of increased IP enforcement. According to the GAO, none of the numbers stand up to scrutiny because they, "cannot be substantiated or traced back to an underlying data source or methodology."

These include a FBI estimate that US businesses lose $200 to $250 billion annually due to counterfeiting. These figures were originally found in a FBI press release, but the agency, "has no record of source data or methodology for generating the estimate." "

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/articl...s_ga o_report

You see, All the other content producing industries act like ours does about piracy. Yet they are all making record sales.

So maybe, just maybe, it isn't copyright infringement that has fucked porn. Maybe we fucked it ourselves with bad business practises. Shady xsells. Circle jerks. Dialiers. Poor customer service and frankly, bad products?


Love to read a citation from the ISPs asking if they can please filter their customers' internet service.

Let's assume, rather than make money selling internets, they want to spend any money policing them for the government. So, how do they pay for the infrastructure? Putting consumers bills up! How else? Brilliant so far. So everyone has to pay more for their internet. It gets better... How do they determine what is copyright infringement and what isn't? They would have to do low level packet analysis. So that means any privacy you had is gone. There will be a team at your ISP searching through EVERY PACKET of data you have to see if THEY THINK it MIGHT be infringing copyright. Then of course, there is the tricky situation with open wifi, spoofed IPs, etc etc.

Do you see? Even if they catch you, they then have to prove the person paying for the internet connection was responsible for downloading a file that is CLAIMED to be copyrighted. Then you would have to prove he DID download it. And it IS what it claims to be.

Jesus. Can you imagine that process?

People that want the privacy to consume content on the internet? Anyone that wants the right to sell content to people on the internet without the government recording everything they buy? People that distribute game patches via P2P. Indy musicians who rely on p2p 'free' distribution to get gigs and deals (kate nash etc). The EFF. The ISPs. The consumers. Pretty much everyone apart from the copyright infringers. They will carry on, as they always have done. See Sweden, France etc for examples of law having NO EFFECT AT ALL on piracy levels. It did increase the purchase of encryption software in Sweden though.

So there you have it.

My pov, backed up with real facts from real sources.

You can never stop piracy. Denting it is pointless. OK, close rapidshare. Who cares? Did closing Napster kill music piracy? No. In fact, the high profile court cases only prove time and time again to INCREASE awareness of how easy it is to pirate stuff and therefore increase piracy.

Spend your time worrying about something you might be able to change. IMHO.

Have a lovely saturday. I'm off to do the gardening.