Research Shows "Three Strikes" Anti-piracy Laws Don't Work 133
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."
Re:You know what curbs piracy? (Score:5, Informative)
Why this makes Hollywood brains explode I'll never know.
Over the past 30 years, the sale and rental of content on video cassettes has generated somewhere in the neighborhood of $150-200 Billion. And yet the MPAA took a lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court trying to outlaw the VCR.
These are the geniuses you're dealing with.