You know what the biggest hurddle for copy-protection advocates is going to be?
It’s not preaching “proper use” to Internet users, music listeners or movie goers. It’s not the RIAA/MPAA/etc. coming up with enough money to keep judges and politicians under their control year after year, campaign after campaign. And it’s not hiring top-level programmers and security consultants to develop the most hack-proof software or encryptions.
No, the greatest hurdle will be policing. And I don’t mean in the sense of those security consultants tracking down on-campus college P2P users. I don’t mean your local police/sheriff dept. having enough manpower to arrest an entire highschool of “illegal music trafficers.”
By policing, I mean teaching computer store employees or librarians or computer lab teachers or Internet cafe attendents … teaching those types of people to recognize when the most unsuspecting of people is using the most unsuspecting device to do the most unsuspecting task.
And I don’t mean to offend anyone, but a lot of those “types” of people don’t even know what Zeropaid.com’s content is all about! How do you stop a “crime” if you don’t know (1) it’s a crime or (2) that it’s being committed right before your eyes?
Like using CompUSA’s demo computers with their high-speed connections, or using an iPod or a digital camera, to copy software or any other type of file for personal use.
Still confused about what I’m talking about? Or even more interested? Check the two following Wired.com stories out … classic human ingenuity! …
- Part 1: “Have iPod, Will Secretly Bootleg”
- Part 2: “Smile, You’re on Bootleg Camera”
