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Originally Posted by escorpio
If drugs were illegal no one would use them. 
The laws are there, but as you pointed out they are difficult (if not impossible) to enforce on the internet. It's not about protective laws, it's about being able to enforce them and I don't think that the government is in a hurry to protect porn piracy through enforcement.
I personally can think of no real way to stop online piracy, because of the reasons you pointed out in the third paragraph. Governments can make it more difficult by playing wack-a-mole with sites but the genie is out of the bottle.  |
The whole user submitted, DMCA BS is a huge loop hole that allows site owners to use stolen intellectual property without repercussion.
Make the site owner RESPONSIBLE for everything on their site just as a magazine publisher is responsible for everything between its covers. Just doing that would allow intellectual property owners to use the laws available to them to their best advantage. Then a site owner would have two choices, pay up front for legitimate content or pay out their ass in a civil lawsuit.