Piracy questions never asked before

>>56020134
>Why people continues to pirate if it's a crime and people can be fined to pay millions of dollars and/ or end life on prison forever?
It's a "it only happens to other people" thing. When people do something they were told is forbidden or dangerousfor the first time, and they don't get any problem, they repeat it again if it was rewarding, and after a while it's just routine. That's how drug dealers get caught.

>Why the government don't force ISPs to block all the piracy websites/ services to stop it?
Because the ruling party who does that will look bad or be attacked by opposing parties, and won't be re-elected. In other words, it's too radical a move.

because free as in gratis stuff and my government doesnt give a heck

>>56020194
>>56020205

What if these people are hoarding metadata from these pirates to fine them in the future? Is it possible?

>>56020238
>Is it possible?
Yes
>Is it likely
No

>>56020238
I guess...

In many countries, private companies can request personal data against a ISP user they were able to catch seeding. I guess they could hoard these data, but things like that can change over a few years, and the name you got is just the name of the guy registering the internet service, not always the person who did the download.

>>56020256
>>56020276
>private companies

Yeah but what if government agencies start to make money selling info of pirates to these companies/ associations?

>>56020449
or even scarier

WHAT IF regular people start selling info of pirates to companies

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>>56020134
>Why people continues to pirate if it's a crime and people can be fined to pay millions of dollars and/ or end life on prison forever?
Because catching people pirating shit is really really fucking hard especially when millions of people do it and most hide behind VPNs or proxies. In the end this "crime" is so widespread that it's not worth putting everyone in jail for. Do you have any idea how fucking expensive it is to put someone in jail and maintain them there for years?

>Why the government don't force ISPs to block all the piracy websites/ services to stop it?
They do but it does jack shit. Bypassing government/ISP blocks has never been impossible so people always get around restrictions.

>>56020514
>Do you have any idea how fucking expensive it is to put someone in jail and maintain them there for years?

They actually don't fucked those poor fat woman who downloaded shit like 5 music files on a ed2k client?

>>56020449
idk bud

here's a good brain teaser

what if you googled your endless dumb hypotheticals instead?

>>56020561
>They actually don't fucked those poor fat woman who downloaded shit like 5 music files on a ed2k client?
That's because she was a distributor of a fuckton of music files, it wasn't just 5.

>"The RIAA accused her of downloading and distributing more than 1,700 music files on file-sharing site KaZaA"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/sep/11/minnesota-woman-songs-illegally-downloaded

Basically if you download a few shitty video rips or download a music album or two then most likely no one will give a fuck, especially the feds since they have better things to do. But piss off the music/video companies enough by sharing and distributing thousands of videos/music and they will cry 24/7 to the feds and force them to prosecute you and they will just so they can STFU.

Anyway when people are prosecuted they usually make the internet dick diamonds and encourage even more piracy so music/video companies have been complaining less recently.

Anyway if you're that worried then just use a VPN/proxy.

>Why people continues to pirate if it's a crime and people can be fined to pay millions of dollars and/ or end life on prison forever?
Same reason people commit any crime.

>Why the government don't force ISPs to block all the piracy websites/ services to stop it?
1. New sites will pop up
2. Any congressman that tried to suggest giving the government the power to fuck around in the open Internet would likely not get re-elected. This isn't China; they're not allowed to have that level of authority.
3. The government isn't interested in piracy that much. The fines are paid out to the copyright holders, so they're not really getting much out of it. By comparison, they get quite a bit of money out of taking down drug dealers, who often keep cash.