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Originally Posted by DJ The Kid
Going after individual end-users is largely ineffective. End-users are not so worried about this, so education (scaring other people into not downloading copyrighted media, by making examples out of others) through litigation is not effective. We've seen that with the RIAA and MPAA. Also, it ends up costing more in legal fees, etc than is recovered (monetarily or "educationally").
The way to go is bottleneck it and cut it at the source... the publishers that are stealing it and distributing it.
Read up and take some notes: http://www.eff.org/wp/riaa-v-people-years-later |
Define effective?
Effective could just be suing pirates profitably. Yes they have to go beyond a simple IP address. But once caught, then they can be offered the options of proving it wasn't them or going to court or settling out of court.
Shopping piracy is not a task industry can achieve, profiting from pirates IMO is fine. They profit from us, industry profits from them.
The suing potential customers is bullshit. Most of these guys will never buy while they can steal.