Lets look at this from a different angle.  People download pirated IP because it costs them nothing - agreed?  So what would happen if each person was charged 10 cents a megabyte of data they downloaded?  That would work out to 10 dollars a gigabyte and for a standard DVD it would cost about $40.  Much more then the price of going to the store and buying a legal copy.  This would have the effect of slowing down the downloading of pirated content, it would also slow or stop the legal sales of products at site such as Renderosity or RDNA or CP etc.  The solution to that problem can be found in public parking.  I went down to the doctors office and had to park in a car park garage.  They charge $2 an hour for parking and I spent 3 hours at the doctors so the cost should have been $6.  however because the doctors office validated parking it only cost $2.  The same idea could be applied to the internet and legal shops would need to purchase a bond to put up against them breaking the laws and providing pirated content.  Much the same as contractors need to purchase building bonds to ensure they complete the job they contracted out to do.  The contractor fails to complete the job the Bond is paid out from the insurance company and the next time the contractor goes to get a bond it will cost them an arm and a leg it they can get it.  As a store such as Renderosity might have to purchase a $10,000 bond (which is the cost of doing business) they would be placed on a list of companies that allow for validation of downloads so the cost to the end user would be waived.  Since in the US the FCC has just declared the internet a Title II utility they can impose any type of regulation on it they want.

This will not stop pirate sites but would dissuade their customers from downloading content that will cost them more then if they bought it legally.  So even though the sites would exist trying to shut them down would cease to be an issue and companies would not have to worry about getting the governments of third world nations to help them stop IP theft. 

 

Your freedom to go to any site  you want to would not be impacted, except that it may cost you more to go that route.  The reason for the bonding is to prevent a pirate from setting up hundreds of site since at some point they will run out of funds and they will give up. 

 

 

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