Today the media is touting the news that the Pirate sites are shutting down, fueled by the corporate lawyers from music, movies & publishing industry. The ignorance lies in that they aren’t shutting down – just moving on to other forms of sharing. Torrents are being heavily monitored right now, but there are plenty of alternatives like newsgroups, FTPs or community P2P.
Another ignorance lies in that they actually think they can win in the long run over the Pirates. Heck, we can’t stop real life sea pirates still after 300 years of technology evolution. The problem is that the big companies stil haven’t learned what a beautiful opportunity the Internet is. They still see it as a threat, which will make them lose money. As they do today, that’s true, but it doesn’t have to be like that. The success of iTunes is clearly evidence of this.
But we need more and easier access to cull the Pirates, not laws and hunters. The biggest reason that Piracy went away in the old days, was the terms was improved enough for everyone, so that the need for Piracy decreased, not by using Pirate Hunters.
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