How to slow the darknet

How to slow the darknet

Posted Dec 3, 2002 14:10 UTC (Tue) by torsten (guest, #4137)
Parent article: Microsoft examines the Darknet

My sister-in-law told me recently of my huge mp3, divx, and music video mpg collections, "You're going to get into trouble."

She's wrong of course, I'm not a big distributor, mostly a collector. I'm not really a target.

But what if I was? This got me thinking -- years of jail time, attorney's, tens of thousands of dollars, and I'm simply to catch. I deleted everything. Herein lies, I believe, the secret.

If the "right to copy" protection racket actually starts prosecuting people, I think they'll find this to be effective in reducing illicit copying.

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