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Listen to me, because I'm tired of saying it and getting downmodded: It is a SOLVED FUCKING PROBLEM.

Use an encrypted drive, use freenet, and the government will not be able to prosecute you unless they happen to have many trillions of years of CPU time on their hands.

Seriously. Not one person has even approached refuting me. Just downmods. That's how I know I'm right.




It's not a solved problem.

The real problem, the one the Pirate Party is trying to solve, is that the worlds culture is being trapped behind private paywalls in which high costs and penalties are extracted. For thousands of years, our culture was free, as everybody told stories, and people sang songs they created and performed.

However, for the last 100 years, copyright has really taken off. The "consensus" is that thoughts: stories, songs, plays, diatribes, you name it, can be owned and money extracted like the old troll under the rotating bridge.

However, once the "Gutenberg Press for Everybody" got out, suddenly these people want money from everybody. And now, everybody is a potential criminal because of this. Hence DRM and high governemnt-sanctioned blackmails.

The question has never been "Can you trade copyrighted media if you use heavy encryption with everything and get your friends the same?", but instead "Can I share this to people I know would like without fear?" or "Can I sing Happy Birthday in public?". There's always going to be nutters who will apply the most obtuse, obfuscated encryptions they can because they can.

The real question is "Who's culture is this, but why do select few gain?".




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