Pardon, Is This Your File?

Teknogeek writes "The BSA says piracy is thriving. At least, according to this article. Note one interesting statistic: '...the group found that 57 percent of respondents never or seldom pay for copyrighted works they download. And 12 percent admitted to pirating software.' How much do you want to bet that 45 percent gap is freeware and/or open source?" On a similar note, an Anonymous Coward writes: "MIT Technology Review reports on the process of scanning the entire internet for digital signatures matching copyrighted work (watermarking not required), and automatically emailing threats to the offenders and their ISPs."

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feeling secure?

[Kargan]

///Still feeling secure about downloading that latest single?///

Yep! I only use private FTP sites, all with nazi admins!

You can't stop us, i mean them

[Coin Slot]

Is this supposed to be news? I'm pretty sure this is obvious. There's nothing that can be done to stop this, thus, it will never end. I think they should stop trying so hard to stop piracy. Instead they should find ways to lower our incentive to pirate, like lowering prices.