• General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    They’ll play whack a mole for decades, just like they have been for P2P file sharing.

    Some differences to that, though.

    • Downloaders can be prosecuted. That raises the question of what happens to kids or their parents who use non-compliant sites.

    • Blocked servers are inaccessible to adults, too, which raises freedom of information issues. These servers don’t contain illegal information, after all.

    • Large scale piracy is illegal pretty much everywhere, meaning that the industry can go after the operators and get the servers offline. Not so here.