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Elbonia | reply to ISurfTooMuch
Re: Oh great! It couldn't work even if it were attempted.
The vast majority of all files on the internet are copyrighted - web pages, images, audio and video, and software: only a small percentage are public domain. So it's not a question of filtering everything that's copyrighted. Infringement occurs only if the file is copyrighted *and* shared without authorization.
But how could software decide whether client C has permission to access file F from server S, and whether S has permission to serve it to C? Obviously there is no way this data could be checked for every internet transaction. The database would have to be bigger than the internet itself, and the whole population of the world would have to work all day and night to maintain it, doing nothing else.
So, presumably, what these arrogant greed-heads really mean is that every internet transaction has to be filtered against a list of their companies' products - at the expense of someone other than their companies, and slowing all the world's data traffic.
Why should anyone do that for them? And again, even this lesser endeavor couldn't work. If it's by title, it can be foiled by changing the names. If it's by hash, it can be foiled by re-encoding or changing a few bytes.
Thus, it would amount to simpy throwing a monkey wrench in every PC or router, with no effect on piracy. Of course, sociopaths don't care about collateral damage, they just want to dominate and manipulate everyone. |
