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Originally Posted by justinsain
If intellectual property was protected there wouldn't be any piracy 
Before the internet the usual media outlets like newspapers and magazine publishers wouldn't dare use and publish intellectual property without permission from its rightful owner. There is no way someone could scan a bunch of images from a magazine and give or sell it to another magazine and that magazine publish them. There would be severe penalties and no problem enforcing them.
If today's website owners were held to the same standards of those magazine publisher which BTW still adhere to those rules, the game would change dramatically and the adult industry would benefit greatly.
The ease of copy and distribution, the user upload loop hole, different laws for different countries and a world wide connection really crushed that protection the media enjoyed before the internet. As I said before, if and when they find a way to once again protect mainstream intellectual property from being abused on the internet porn will also benefit from the same laws. |
If drugs were illegal no one would use them.
The laws are there, but as you pointed out they are difficult (if not impossible) to enforce on the internet. It's not about protective laws, it's about being able to enforce them and I don't think that the government is in a hurry to protect porn piracy through enforcement.
I personally can think of no real way to stop online piracy, because of the reasons you pointed out in the third paragraph. Governments can make it more difficult by playing wack-a-mole with sites but the genie is out of the bottle.
