Or parents could simply look at the ESRB sticker and know right away what kind of content is in the game. That's why those ratings are there after all.
Good point. The RIAA's crusade against "copyright infringement" has never been about the artists, it's about giant distribution firms who suddenly find themselves in a world where their services are no longer required. They've proven they're either too stupid or unwilling to adapt to this new world, so the sooner they leave the music business the better off everyone will be, including the artists. Especially the artists.
I don't see why. You pay monthly regardless of how long you spend in the game and what you do in it. If anything long, unnecessary travel times will tend to put people off of subscribing for another month.
I had no idea you could put your citations somewhere other than with your work. Next time I hand in a term paper I'll just tape the citations to my door, should be fine!
"With 389 yes, 128 no and 18 withheld votes the government passed the so called "Zensursula" bill today with 535 politicians voting in total. Now the plans to repeal on grounds of unconstitutionality begin.
It's a black day for the digital community and will no doubt have repercussions from tech-savvy voters for the two ruling parties in the upcoming elections.
We've achieved quite a bit with the #zensursula campaign and we can continue to build on this, get better at spreading our message and eventually change this bad policy. I'm happy that the articles here on Netzpolitik have been given a voice in the press and in the minds of everyday citizens. This new information-central world of communication brings us a new degree of openness and we are slowly learning how to use our new digital tools and open source principles effectively. Every day we grow stronger and we'll continue to define and breathe life into these digital communities. Many people are becoming more political and are beginning to share their political views with others, both on the net and in the analog world. This is fun, it's creative and it's a worthwhile democratic activity, so join in!
"
The link at the end isn't quite so positive. It asks a lot of the same questions that we asked here on/. yesterday and gives a nice overview of
the things that were done to try to fight this bill. The first paragraph reads:
"After the passing into law of the 'Zensursula-infrastructure' there are undoubtedly many people out there who are feeling disappointed. What more could we have done that we didn't do in the last few months and years? How big does a movement have to be before it's successful? Our group has grown incredibly, so why doesn't anyone seem to understand us?"
I'd do the rest but my translation skills aren't the best and it's already time for me to be getting to class. It's a great article though.
The idea that Germans tend to be "technical, detail oriented and savvy" is more one of those stereotypical views from the outside in. In reality most Germans are no more tech savvy than the rest of the developed world. Most of the over 40's I've met barely know how to operate a computer. Germans do love buying the newest high tech gadgets, but that's more of a class status symbol than anything else. It makes them feel good to have the latest greatest plasma TV, and they'll happily show it off to you with an instruction booklet in hand while they try to get the picture-in-picture to work.
Just like everywhere else an entire generation got blinded by a huge leap forward in technology over the past couple decades, and unfortunately for everyone that generation is in charge at the moment.
The real discouraging thing here isn't the law itself (though that'd be enough in and of itself), it's the fact that despite criticism from all sides, a huge petition, thousands of people writing their elected officials and several protests outside government buildings the law is still being passed. Hell I've even seen stickers protesting the proposed law at bus stops and train stations. The "Zensursula" stickers are everywhere around here. When your government flat out ignores these things what's left to do? Wait for the next election, elect some other party into the majority and hope they actually behave differently? Just seems like every year things get worse, no matter who's in office.
One other fun fact, the ruling parties (the CDU and SPD) have already mentioned using this blacklist for other things too, mainly gambling sites, Islamic sites and "Killerspiele" (sites that contain or promote violent games).
It all brings to mind that South Park baseball episode where Randy gets arrested, with one small difference, "Oh I'm sorry I thought this was a democracy".
Each device has its own secret key, which is 40 numbers long, that the device isn't supposed to reveal to any other device. In addition each device gets an addition rule, which basically says "Add the numbers at positions x and y of your private key together and give me the result". This addition rule is public, all you need to do to acquire it is try to start a HDCP handshake with the device in question. So device A wants to complete a handshake with device B, both B and A send each other their addition rules, carry out the addition on the specified numbers and send each other the result. Through some mathematical voodoo (thanks to the ultra secret "Master key") the result will always match if both devices are legitimate.
As it turns out it's pretty easy to guess a device's secret key by using at least 40 other devices. All you need is the addition rule of the device to be broken, which is publicly available. You then apply the addition rule to each of the 40 other devices and store every result. When you're done you're left with 40 algebraic equations, like x1 + x4 = 23, x7+x12 = 65 etc. From here you can use some algebraic voodoo to reconstruct the target's private key, which you then spoof to authenticate any HDCP session to any device (until that key is revoked).
But it's worse than that. Turns out it's also possible to figure out the master key (a 40x40 matrix of 56 bit numbers) used to create all the private keys once you uncover at least 40 private keys. It's not easy, but it can be done, and since the whole system relies on the secrecy of this matrix once it's released to the public HDCP will be useless.
This break was discussed here on/. 3 years ago, and it's just one of several methods that can break HDCP. As far as I know this particular vulnerability still exists, though I haven't been keeping up with developments lately.
I think you missed the point, and also the quotes around 'proper'. Don't rely so much on isolated incidents, you can make a case for anything by using an isolated incident to make sweeping generalizations, that's why there's a whole class of fallacies called "faulty generalizations".
While I'm not too thrilled about people taking the law into their own hands, lets try to keep some perspective. How many innocent people have been jailed or executed by our 'proper' systems of justice? More than a few, I'll bet. Judges and juries are prone to making mistakes just like the rest of us. Most of these internet vigilante cases so far have ended in personal information being made public, threats against the suspects and evidence being sent to local authorities who take it from there (unless the person didn't actually commit a crime in his country). I'm hoping the internet gives some sense of separation from the issue that keeps people from doing anything too rash, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
EVE solved this problem by creating a big world to start with then artificially cordoning off certain regions. You literally couldn't go there, even though the regions existed in the database and showed up on the galaxy map. As the population density grew they gradually started to open up more regions to the players.
I'll bet there are certainly server side things that, in hindsight, the devs would have done differently. Things that just aren't possible anymore without a complete rewrite of the server code.
A lot of the lag problems stem from the fact that a solar system can't be reassigned to a different node on the fly. If it could then you could have a second smaller, high power cluster on standby to take over a solar system if it becomes too congested. Once you have that functionality you could use some heuristics to automatically reassign solar systems based on different criteria (like congestion).
I'm not a network admin, but I'm sure there's some lessons to be learned from EVE Online for future MMOs. Things that worked well and things that could be done better.
Just like with music and video consumers of books can be broken down into 3 categories; people who actively looked for your book, people who don't know about your book and people who know about it but aren't willing to spend money for it for whatever personal reason.
The first category are the people who will usually buy your book, even if there's a pirated version out there. I'll go ahead and guess that the bulk of this group are returning customers or people who've had your book recommended to them by a friend. We can also include people who'd rather have a physical book in their hands in this group (and I'd wager that's still the majority of the population).
The second group of people had no idea your book even existed before they came across it on a filesharing site. You've lost no money to them. In fact you can only stand to gain money you otherwise wouldn't have gotten; they'll either buy it, buy your future books or at the least recommend your book to people they know. If they liked it of course. Even if they do none of these things you still haven't lost any money, because without that filesharing site they may never have seen your book at all.
The third group wouldn't have bought your book anyway. Maybe they're not that into books and only wanted to download yours for a quick skim over, maybe they have no money to spare on books, maybe they use their library card and downloading it was just more convenient, who knows. Point is you're not losing money here either.
If someone built a private road/tunnel system, told everyone it is open to the public, but it just happened to have 99% illegal drug traffic and 1% legit, do you really think that the cops would let you continue to maintain those roads and toll fees?
If I were a cop in that situation I'd set up a checkpoint on that road and thank the good man for providing me with such a great place to bust drug smugglers;)
The analogy doesn't hold up when we're talking about operators of a site like TPB, but I think it does when we're talking about ISP's. The MAFIAA expects ISP's to police their property rights for them, I say sorry, that's not how copyright works. As the copyright holder it's your responsibility to watch for abuses and use the legal system as a tool to enforce your property rights. But they're not satisfied with that, "It's too hard! There's too many of them!" they cry. Well tough. The rest of the world is ready for a change in how we handle IP, ironically the only people who aren't are the ones whining about how hard it is to enforce the old model in today's world, a world that's unbelievably different than it was 50 years ago. Imagine what the world would be like now if the people who made a living copying books by hand had managed to stop the printing press.
Chances are if they did bother they'd go after the seedboxes first, the people with 100 MBit upload who are fairly common on private trackers. But the reality is getting into a private tracker takes a lot more work than simply using a public one, most are invite-only so they'd need to know someone on the inside as invites usually aren't given out on a whim. Plus the public trackers have far more users, there's just no reason for the MAFIAA to bother playing undercover games when there's millions of users on TPB.
Private trackers aren't safe, they're just safer. How much safer is anyone's guess.
And it only took the RIAA + friends what? 4 years to kill Mininova? It must be frustrating to know there are literally hundreds of other torrent sites, all of which will be happy to take the 'refugees' from this minor inconvenience.
In any event being able to bully torrent sites into submission through legal means isn't what I'm worried about. I'm much more worried about them coercing ISP's into their little self-regulation schemes, as if it's somehow an ISP's responsibility to protect Sony BMG's copyrights. It strikes me as being just as misguided as expecting the people who maintain our roads to be responsible for people smuggling drugs across the border. Sorry guys, if you want to cling to the old IP system in the information age you should be prepared to do all the hard work yourself. If you don't like it I'm sure we can come up with some new, fairer systems to try.
Or, you know, just bribe politicians until you get your way. I guess that works too...
A few years ago Google filed a patent for a method of making micro payments from a cell phone under the name GPay. The idea being that you would text message a number and have it automatically add $x to your cell phone bill, which would make it into the hands of whoever you just paid for a service or product.
This system has been around for a while, it's especially common here in Europe, but so far Google hasn't followed through on the implementation. Maybe that will change very soon (I was sure it would be included in the Android phone).
With a system like this in place it becomes very easy for someone to tip a person for an enjoyable YouTube video. There's been times where I would gladly have given the creator a dollar or two for his video (the John Freeman adventures for example), but there's just no easy way to do it. Give me a number to text that will automatically give the creator a dollar and I'd be all over it, and I wouldn't have a problem with Google skimming a percentage for themselves (as long as it's reasonable). The first John Freeman video has 1.7 million views, if 0.1% of those viewers like it enough to give a dollar that's $1700 for the creator, not a bad hobby, and not a bad source of revenue for Google when you expand it to the millions of videos on YouTube.
The beauty of this system is there's no need for credit cards or accounts at third party websites, just text a number and the transaction is done. Anywhere, anytime. Whether it's technically and financially feasible I don't know, but it would certainly be a step ahead of a Paypal like service.
I think the people in charge know full well that this list will be largely useless at actually stopping anyone from getting to the content they want. There have been public debates within the government on TV here about it for weeks (similar to CSPAN in the US) and literally every expert brought in to give his opinion has said it'll have little or no effect. To which the government cronies reply "A little effect is better than nothing if it's for the children". You should see the derision they've aimed at ISP's who chose not to voluntarily participate. They're one step short of calling them closet child abusers.
The general feeling here in Germany is that this is nothing more than some political showboating before the election, which makes me even angrier. The thought that the country is being taken one step closer to what China has in place just so a few politicians can give the impression that they're doing something noble and useful is sickening.
All we can do is vote some other party into power in the next elections, which will be a hollow victory for the people considering this law will probably not be repealed once it's put in place. No politician will want to seem like he's soft on pedophiles, even if the system is totally useless in stopping them. Plus it gives them the power to block whatever they want, why would they give that up once they have it? Sure am glad I live in a democratic, free country...
In the end all this noise making about copyright on the internet will come down to a simple choice; do we change our ideas on copyrights or do we dismantle the internet? The latter is impossible by now, which is why all these lawsuits and lobbying attempts by content holders are futile. Content holders are just going through the stages of change;
1) Shock - This was Napster
2) Denial - The time between Napster and torrents
3) Anger - This is where they are now
4) Passive Acceptance - Not there yet folks
5) Exploration - Companies will start to surface with new business models that work with file sharing
6) Challenge - Business models will be refined until everyone settles into a new norm, where our current copyright laws will seem silly
Some artists and companies are already on step 5, but by and large everyone is still suck on step 3. It's my personal hope that they get left there while others start to thrive, the whole content industry could use a reboot. So long as the internet exists people will find a way to distribute whatever data they want. If content holders think this is a problem now just wait until people start encrypting all their internet traffic.
Perhaps NASA could work with the LHC to produce a small black hole and put it in orbit. It might cause a problem later but who cares? It gets rid of the problem now, and that's all that matters amirite?
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Or parents could simply look at the ESRB sticker and know right away what kind of content is in the game. That's why those ratings are there after all.
Good point. The RIAA's crusade against "copyright infringement" has never been about the artists, it's about giant distribution firms who suddenly find themselves in a world where their services are no longer required. They've proven they're either too stupid or unwilling to adapt to this new world, so the sooner they leave the music business the better off everyone will be, including the artists. Especially the artists.
I don't see why. You pay monthly regardless of how long you spend in the game and what you do in it. If anything long, unnecessary travel times will tend to put people off of subscribing for another month.
I had no idea you could put your citations somewhere other than with your work. Next time I hand in a term paper I'll just tape the citations to my door, should be fine!
"With 389 yes, 128 no and 18 withheld votes the government passed the so called "Zensursula" bill today with 535 politicians voting in total. Now the plans to repeal on grounds of unconstitutionality begin.
/. yesterday and gives a nice overview of
the things that were done to try to fight this bill. The first paragraph reads:
It's a black day for the digital community and will no doubt have repercussions from tech-savvy voters for the two ruling parties in the upcoming elections.
We've achieved quite a bit with the #zensursula campaign and we can continue to build on this, get better at spreading our message and eventually change this bad policy. I'm happy that the articles here on Netzpolitik have been given a voice in the press and in the minds of everyday citizens. This new information-central world of communication brings us a new degree of openness and we are slowly learning how to use our new digital tools and open source principles effectively. Every day we grow stronger and we'll continue to define and breathe life into these digital communities. Many people are becoming more political and are beginning to share their political views with others, both on the net and in the analog world. This is fun, it's creative and it's a worthwhile democratic activity, so join in!
" The link at the end isn't quite so positive. It asks a lot of the same questions that we asked here on
"After the passing into law of the 'Zensursula-infrastructure' there are undoubtedly many people out there who are feeling disappointed. What more could we have done that we didn't do in the last few months and years? How big does a movement have to be before it's successful? Our group has grown incredibly, so why doesn't anyone seem to understand us?"
I'd do the rest but my translation skills aren't the best and it's already time for me to be getting to class. It's a great article though.
Isn't it great how the same bad bill can be reintroduced over and over again until they finally find a group of politicians that will pass it?
The idea that Germans tend to be "technical, detail oriented and savvy" is more one of those stereotypical views from the outside in. In reality most Germans are no more tech savvy than the rest of the developed world. Most of the over 40's I've met barely know how to operate a computer. Germans do love buying the newest high tech gadgets, but that's more of a class status symbol than anything else. It makes them feel good to have the latest greatest plasma TV, and they'll happily show it off to you with an instruction booklet in hand while they try to get the picture-in-picture to work.
Just like everywhere else an entire generation got blinded by a huge leap forward in technology over the past couple decades, and unfortunately for everyone that generation is in charge at the moment.
The real discouraging thing here isn't the law itself (though that'd be enough in and of itself), it's the fact that despite criticism from all sides, a huge petition, thousands of people writing their elected officials and several protests outside government buildings the law is still being passed. Hell I've even seen stickers protesting the proposed law at bus stops and train stations. The "Zensursula" stickers are everywhere around here. When your government flat out ignores these things what's left to do? Wait for the next election, elect some other party into the majority and hope they actually behave differently? Just seems like every year things get worse, no matter who's in office.
One other fun fact, the ruling parties (the CDU and SPD) have already mentioned using this blacklist for other things too, mainly gambling sites, Islamic sites and "Killerspiele" (sites that contain or promote violent games).
It all brings to mind that South Park baseball episode where Randy gets arrested, with one small difference, "Oh I'm sorry I thought this was a democracy".
It's already been done as far back as 2001. The gist of it is this:
/. 3 years ago, and it's just one of several methods that can break HDCP. As far as I know this particular vulnerability still exists, though I haven't been keeping up with developments lately.
Each device has its own secret key, which is 40 numbers long, that the device isn't supposed to reveal to any other device. In addition each device gets an addition rule, which basically says "Add the numbers at positions x and y of your private key together and give me the result". This addition rule is public, all you need to do to acquire it is try to start a HDCP handshake with the device in question. So device A wants to complete a handshake with device B, both B and A send each other their addition rules, carry out the addition on the specified numbers and send each other the result. Through some mathematical voodoo (thanks to the ultra secret "Master key") the result will always match if both devices are legitimate.
As it turns out it's pretty easy to guess a device's secret key by using at least 40 other devices. All you need is the addition rule of the device to be broken, which is publicly available. You then apply the addition rule to each of the 40 other devices and store every result. When you're done you're left with 40 algebraic equations, like x1 + x4 = 23, x7+x12 = 65 etc. From here you can use some algebraic voodoo to reconstruct the target's private key, which you then spoof to authenticate any HDCP session to any device (until that key is revoked).
But it's worse than that. Turns out it's also possible to figure out the master key (a 40x40 matrix of 56 bit numbers) used to create all the private keys once you uncover at least 40 private keys. It's not easy, but it can be done, and since the whole system relies on the secrecy of this matrix once it's released to the public HDCP will be useless. This break was discussed here on
I think you missed the point, and also the quotes around 'proper'. Don't rely so much on isolated incidents, you can make a case for anything by using an isolated incident to make sweeping generalizations, that's why there's a whole class of fallacies called "faulty generalizations".
While I'm not too thrilled about people taking the law into their own hands, lets try to keep some perspective. How many innocent people have been jailed or executed by our 'proper' systems of justice? More than a few, I'll bet. Judges and juries are prone to making mistakes just like the rest of us. Most of these internet vigilante cases so far have ended in personal information being made public, threats against the suspects and evidence being sent to local authorities who take it from there (unless the person didn't actually commit a crime in his country). I'm hoping the internet gives some sense of separation from the issue that keeps people from doing anything too rash, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
ContactPoint
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Really?
Well come on now, Sony's new stupid box thing looks pretty good. (NSFW)
EVE solved this problem by creating a big world to start with then artificially cordoning off certain regions. You literally couldn't go there, even though the regions existed in the database and showed up on the galaxy map. As the population density grew they gradually started to open up more regions to the players.
I'll bet there are certainly server side things that, in hindsight, the devs would have done differently. Things that just aren't possible anymore without a complete rewrite of the server code.
A lot of the lag problems stem from the fact that a solar system can't be reassigned to a different node on the fly. If it could then you could have a second smaller, high power cluster on standby to take over a solar system if it becomes too congested. Once you have that functionality you could use some heuristics to automatically reassign solar systems based on different criteria (like congestion).
I'm not a network admin, but I'm sure there's some lessons to be learned from EVE Online for future MMOs. Things that worked well and things that could be done better.
Book pirates? I'd pay the ransom dude, those guys are serious business.
1) Legalize marijuana
2) Regulate and tax it
3) PROFIT!!!
There's not even a ??? step to worry about with this one.
Just like with music and video consumers of books can be broken down into 3 categories; people who actively looked for your book, people who don't know about your book and people who know about it but aren't willing to spend money for it for whatever personal reason.
The first category are the people who will usually buy your book, even if there's a pirated version out there. I'll go ahead and guess that the bulk of this group are returning customers or people who've had your book recommended to them by a friend. We can also include people who'd rather have a physical book in their hands in this group (and I'd wager that's still the majority of the population).
The second group of people had no idea your book even existed before they came across it on a filesharing site. You've lost no money to them. In fact you can only stand to gain money you otherwise wouldn't have gotten; they'll either buy it, buy your future books or at the least recommend your book to people they know. If they liked it of course. Even if they do none of these things you still haven't lost any money, because without that filesharing site they may never have seen your book at all.
The third group wouldn't have bought your book anyway. Maybe they're not that into books and only wanted to download yours for a quick skim over, maybe they have no money to spare on books, maybe they use their library card and downloading it was just more convenient, who knows. Point is you're not losing money here either.
tl;dr: a download != a lost sale.
If someone built a private road/tunnel system, told everyone it is open to the public, but it just happened to have 99% illegal drug traffic and 1% legit, do you really think that the cops would let you continue to maintain those roads and toll fees?
;)
:)
If I were a cop in that situation I'd set up a checkpoint on that road and thank the good man for providing me with such a great place to bust drug smugglers
The analogy doesn't hold up when we're talking about operators of a site like TPB, but I think it does when we're talking about ISP's. The MAFIAA expects ISP's to police their property rights for them, I say sorry, that's not how copyright works. As the copyright holder it's your responsibility to watch for abuses and use the legal system as a tool to enforce your property rights. But they're not satisfied with that, "It's too hard! There's too many of them!" they cry. Well tough. The rest of the world is ready for a change in how we handle IP, ironically the only people who aren't are the ones whining about how hard it is to enforce the old model in today's world, a world that's unbelievably different than it was 50 years ago. Imagine what the world would be like now if the people who made a living copying books by hand had managed to stop the printing press.
Anyway, sorry, didn't mean to get on a rant
Chances are if they did bother they'd go after the seedboxes first, the people with 100 MBit upload who are fairly common on private trackers. But the reality is getting into a private tracker takes a lot more work than simply using a public one, most are invite-only so they'd need to know someone on the inside as invites usually aren't given out on a whim. Plus the public trackers have far more users, there's just no reason for the MAFIAA to bother playing undercover games when there's millions of users on TPB.
Private trackers aren't safe, they're just safer. How much safer is anyone's guess.
And it only took the RIAA + friends what? 4 years to kill Mininova? It must be frustrating to know there are literally hundreds of other torrent sites, all of which will be happy to take the 'refugees' from this minor inconvenience.
In any event being able to bully torrent sites into submission through legal means isn't what I'm worried about. I'm much more worried about them coercing ISP's into their little self-regulation schemes, as if it's somehow an ISP's responsibility to protect Sony BMG's copyrights. It strikes me as being just as misguided as expecting the people who maintain our roads to be responsible for people smuggling drugs across the border. Sorry guys, if you want to cling to the old IP system in the information age you should be prepared to do all the hard work yourself. If you don't like it I'm sure we can come up with some new, fairer systems to try.
Or, you know, just bribe politicians until you get your way. I guess that works too...
A few years ago Google filed a patent for a method of making micro payments from a cell phone under the name GPay. The idea being that you would text message a number and have it automatically add $x to your cell phone bill, which would make it into the hands of whoever you just paid for a service or product.
This system has been around for a while, it's especially common here in Europe, but so far Google hasn't followed through on the implementation. Maybe that will change very soon (I was sure it would be included in the Android phone).
With a system like this in place it becomes very easy for someone to tip a person for an enjoyable YouTube video. There's been times where I would gladly have given the creator a dollar or two for his video (the John Freeman adventures for example), but there's just no easy way to do it. Give me a number to text that will automatically give the creator a dollar and I'd be all over it, and I wouldn't have a problem with Google skimming a percentage for themselves (as long as it's reasonable). The first John Freeman video has 1.7 million views, if 0.1% of those viewers like it enough to give a dollar that's $1700 for the creator, not a bad hobby, and not a bad source of revenue for Google when you expand it to the millions of videos on YouTube.
The beauty of this system is there's no need for credit cards or accounts at third party websites, just text a number and the transaction is done. Anywhere, anytime. Whether it's technically and financially feasible I don't know, but it would certainly be a step ahead of a Paypal like service.
I think the people in charge know full well that this list will be largely useless at actually stopping anyone from getting to the content they want. There have been public debates within the government on TV here about it for weeks (similar to CSPAN in the US) and literally every expert brought in to give his opinion has said it'll have little or no effect. To which the government cronies reply "A little effect is better than nothing if it's for the children". You should see the derision they've aimed at ISP's who chose not to voluntarily participate. They're one step short of calling them closet child abusers.
The general feeling here in Germany is that this is nothing more than some political showboating before the election, which makes me even angrier. The thought that the country is being taken one step closer to what China has in place just so a few politicians can give the impression that they're doing something noble and useful is sickening.
All we can do is vote some other party into power in the next elections, which will be a hollow victory for the people considering this law will probably not be repealed once it's put in place. No politician will want to seem like he's soft on pedophiles, even if the system is totally useless in stopping them. Plus it gives them the power to block whatever they want, why would they give that up once they have it? Sure am glad I live in a democratic, free country...
In the end all this noise making about copyright on the internet will come down to a simple choice; do we change our ideas on copyrights or do we dismantle the internet? The latter is impossible by now, which is why all these lawsuits and lobbying attempts by content holders are futile. Content holders are just going through the stages of change;
1) Shock - This was Napster
2) Denial - The time between Napster and torrents
3) Anger - This is where they are now
4) Passive Acceptance - Not there yet folks
5) Exploration - Companies will start to surface with new business models that work with file sharing
6) Challenge - Business models will be refined until everyone settles into a new norm, where our current copyright laws will seem silly
Some artists and companies are already on step 5, but by and large everyone is still suck on step 3. It's my personal hope that they get left there while others start to thrive, the whole content industry could use a reboot. So long as the internet exists people will find a way to distribute whatever data they want. If content holders think this is a problem now just wait until people start encrypting all their internet traffic.
Perhaps NASA could work with the LHC to produce a small black hole and put it in orbit. It might cause a problem later but who cares? It gets rid of the problem now, and that's all that matters amirite?