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Originally Posted by kirant
What I meant is that they're at least trying to actively stop piracy now (which I assume is the heart of the bill), as oppose to the almost rampant activity I've remembered for god knows how long.
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Do you honestly think it will work? As for "rampant activity" yes it's out there. But smart companies find a way to capitalize on it, not attempt to crush it. Mp3 tech was popularized by piracy because the 10:1 compression made the file sizes feasible. The VCR when it first came out was said to be the end of the movie industry. It turned out to be a massive revenue machine, in many cases home movie sales eclipsed the box office take.
iTunes is a very important and vibrant revenue source for the music industry. STEAM is capitalizing on fast connections to distribute games, in fact it's very similar to how people pirate using bittorrent. There will always be those that pirate, but the key is to make the legit version affordable and have enough advantages where most people will just use the legit service instead. You can't stop all piracy, it's been going on since the beginning of time. But the arseholes at the RIAA and the like would have you believe that piracy is going to destroy entire industries, which is completely false.