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Originally Posted by 6South
I said "prosecutions", not "investigations". I can fill out a web form and get an investigation number from ICE. How many actual prosecutions has your system generated?
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You keep talking about ICE, FBI completely ignoring that fact that these are not the only federal law enforcement bodies in existence on this planet. We are working closely with several national government law enforcement bodies and I am confident that prosecutions shall be brought against individuals and companies.
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I've been an information architect designing secure content systems for governments and military clients for well over a decade. I promise you there are existing DRM technologies that do work and defeat all capture methods even videotaping a monitor if it comes to that.
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At what cost and disadvantage to the consumer ?
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The hold up on wide spread use has been a combination of limitations imposed by classified status and the need for computer hardware to cycle through the market. The older versions of this are becoming available outside of military and government markets now but even those beat anything you've seen in the commercial sphere by miles. Nothing has prevented the entertainment industry from developing the same capabilities other than misinformation and an industry mind set based on outdated methods. (Like spending millions to buy lawmakers vs. developing other solutions).
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I've heard the spending millions to buy lawmakers argument from the piracy sector, you have <40 posts, nobody knows you, no credentials, we don't know who you are so what you're saying is without any credibility until you back up your self professed credentials.
There are many additional issues in relation to enforcement of IP that go way outside the scope of DRM. Passing off, misuse of brands, misuse of trademarks are just a few, how does DRM solve these ? It doesn't.
I believe that the best way to hurt the pirates is by prosecuting them and taking their money, internet connectivity and monetization methods away - disincentivise them.
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There are plenty of alternate payment methods already popular w/ the piracy crowd and there will be more. The conversion to spendable cash is easy and they can obtain everything they need including servers without ever needing a credit card.
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Name them.
There are 3rd party processors acting way outside Visa and Mastercard regulations and we will be dealing with them. There are 3rd party processors acting outside applicable laws in the countries in which they operate, we'll be dealing with them too. For the others we will be working to cut off the ability to transact across different payment methods.
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Keep up the good work though, someone needs to do it and I do applaud the change in tactics to going after the payment processor accounts. I completely disagree that it solves everything, however.
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As I have already stated we have other strategies ready to play out, we're not going to announce them here, you'll have to watch and see.
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I stand by my position that while it's necessary to keep the small fish under control the big players such as the organized crime rings will only grow stronger. You won't change the law enforcement picture in some of those places for at least another 10-20 years if that soon.
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I think you underestimate the ability of existing legislation to curb these activities on a global scale, until now few have been prepared to leverage all of the available attack vectors against piracy - we intend to change all of that and thus far we've been pretty successful.