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Originally Posted by stocktrader23
Want to stop pirates? Skip DMCA all together. Let content producers sue pirates directly and without hassle. Don't make it cost prohibitive to get a court order to track down the bastards. When the case gets to court let the penalties for blatant theft be stronger than those for someone posting some funny image to their friends. Make the court process reasonably fast and make sure the judgments are fairly standard.
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Pirates operating out of the Ukraine and Slovakia is a bit of a hassle no? Pirates that don't give a shit about a ruling in an American court. Pirates that hide behind Chinese and Ukrainian whois protect services that have no physical address and an email that bounces. Pirates that are using ISP's based in the Netherlands who are havens for spammers, phishers and content thieves and could care less about a US lawsuit. Pirates who operate off not .com's or .net's and instead use domains outside of any US jurisdiction.
This is the biggest part that people don't realize. We aren't talking about bring a kid in Reseda, CA to justice. We're talking about dudes in the Ukraine, Russian Federation, China, Vietnam, etc. These aren't just kids doing it for extra scratch. These are criminal organizations being given cover by their countries because in case you haven't realized it...these countries could care less about US intellectual property.
I'm not all for SOPA, a lot of it is flawed. But it's a step, the first of many more steps. A lot of other countries are watching us to see what we can get passed before they enact their own laws. Eventually the parasite countries will have their own IP and then they'll care, but in case you haven't been paying attention. That country called China doesn't really give a fuck about US IP, much less any court order from Judge Judy in the United States.