You Will Never Kill Piracy

scottbomb writes "This is perhaps the best op-ed I've read about the whole SOPA/PIPA controversy. The author challenges Hollywood to re-think their entire business model. It will undoubtedly fall on deaf ears, for now. But sooner or later, they will have no choice but to adapt. From the article: 'Now that the SOPA and PIPA fights have died down, and Hollywood prepares their next salvo against internet freedom with ACTA and PCIP, it's worth pausing to consider how the war on piracy could actually be won. It can't, is the short answer, and one these companies do not want to hear as they put their fingers in their ears and start yelling.'"

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Re:It's the Streisand Effect

[Anonymous Coward]

Piracy will never die? Really?
No shit.What exactly is the news here?
Of course you'll never stop piracy, just like you'll never stop armed robbery or murder. We should have given up enforcing those laws years ago. Clearly, the only reason we still have a police force is because it's a government controlled monopoly, and they're too lazy and stupid to change their business model into something more sustainable, like selling guns and bullet proof vests to citizens.