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Piracy is already illegal. Just like child pornography is already illegal. There is no need to make extra laws about it, and whenever somebody purports to write a law to "prevent" a crime that is already illegal, you can know that that law will contain terrible, overreaching things.

There's a reason that there's no law that holds telephone companies responsible for law-breaking which is organized over their wires / cell towers. It's ludicrous.



Just making something illegal doesn't prevent it from happening--there also need to be laws providing mechanisms for investigation and enforcement.

The phone companies have all sorts of legal duties to law enforcement. If a court orders it, they have to assist with taps, traces, geolocation, call records, etc.

As you say, piracy is already illegal. And we know there's a ton of casual piracy that goes on--see:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/its-official...

So the question is: what mechanisms of enforcement can dampen casual piracy and yet be acceptable to most tech companies?




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