Zyber

Gideon, please. This discussion is not about fair use of "format shifting" but about actually doing something to combat the thieves who hack your video-streaming system to download your video and share the loot with the rest of the world. Thieves who break into your house, raid your fridge, and give your food to someone else. Then your own hungry kids can look into the empty fridge in despair and start crying. See the point? There are actual human victims. Also, it is no one's "right" to format-shift. When you have watched a movie in the cinema you can't claim to also get a digital copy home, so you can watch the movie at home with your friends who didn't pay. No doggy-bags.

Let's keep this thread on the topic of technical solutions of identification, and not on these philosophical discussions where we will never agree, anyway.

It is time for action. Time to find efficient methods of identifying the thief. How to punish the person once correctly identified will be a totally different topic (litigation, hacking, sharing his private info, pay the guy a visit, break into his house and share his belongings with the community, compare the number of stolen videos with the number of his fingers, etc..). The punishment phase is only a question of how sadistic you are, and how much pleasure you get from seeking personal revenge. The most important though is to be sure that you catch the right guy. Otherwise you would end up wasting too much energy on an innocent person.