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Oh yeah, drjones, if you haven't already, you might consider reading the book "the Tipping Point". Having a better understanding of trends and fashion is a good way to control these things.
We can't stop everyone from file sharing. That won't happen. You put up bigger walls, and people buy bigger ladders.
However, if you make it somehow unfashionable, uncool, or undesirable then suddenly the trend dies. There is a move now to tube and torrent sites as the main source of porn. Making those things uncool or undesirable in some manner will have longer term effects. Making the risk (220,000$) higher than the reward (a couple of CDs of songs) can actually go a long way to tipping people away from stealing content.
You cannot fix social trends with legislation or a police state mentality. You have to change it at a fundemental level. Have you seen now how often there are comedy pieces about dumb white people trying to talk with "ebonics"? Trying to talk like a gang member? There is a whole series of radio commercials up here with some kid and his mother, and she is saying "My new lower insurance rate is ill!". The kid is cringing listing to his mom talk like this. But the reality is that more and more, that style of talking is becoming uncool, and you actually hear less and less of it these days. Many of the top black rap artists and performers appear to be going out of their way to be well spoken and better understood. It's intresting to watch.
In the end, when it becomes less cool, people will download less. Just one of those things.
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