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Research Shows "Three Strikes" Anti-piracy Laws Don't Work

Posted by Unknown on from the who'd-thunk-it dept.

Bismillah writes "Graduated response regimes that warn and then penalize users for infringing file sharing do not appear to work, new research from Monash University in Australia has found. The paper studied 'three strikes' laws (abstract, freely downloadable as a PDF from there) in France, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan and the UK, as well as other anti-filesharing regimes in the U.S. and Ireland, but found scant evidence that they're effective."

3 of 133 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Three Strikes Laws by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course. It works in baseball.

    And if you don't like baseball, you are a commie pinko.

    USA USA USA USA

  2. Re:Update by rudy_wayne · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just wanted everyone to know that I am enjoying some energetic coitus in front of my living-room window RIGHT NOW.

    We already know that.

    -- The NSA

  3. Re:Pirates are good for the economy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    And again in the 1908s.

    Those wax music cylinders are sure easy to copy these days. No DRM at all.