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Originally Posted by L-Pink
This all boils down to people using the creative works of others for their own personal gain. Either create your own "product" or pay for the authorized use of someone else's. Just because my property is in my front yard, my house or my website doesn't give you the right to help yourself to my efforts. Period..
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And then when someone takes your property and you phone the police, they go after the thief and punish him and give you back your property (in the perfect situation). Then when someone steals your content on the internet and you phone the police, they don't have a clue to where to start, so they won't do anything at all. So the problem is at law enforcement not enforcing laws on the internet. There is no western country that has exceptions for the internet in its intelligent property laws.
Paul's idea to basically replace law enforcement by a citizen initiative won't work because the thieves will simply piss all over it and get away with it.