The war against online piracy has been a ferocious but as yet almost entirely unsuccessful struggle. It has left both the entertainment industry and the governments that have tried to buttress them bloodied and until recently at a loss as to what to do.
Suing downloading scofflaws was expensive and ineffective. Cheesy adverts comparing downloading to stealing cars were mocked by the teenagers they were targetting. Legal downloading businesses trying to convince people to pay for the se...
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