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Story: Making IP infringement a crime

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Sigh. The EC is still clueless. They still haven't figured out that they are being used by large cooperations to do their dirty work for them.

Picture the following scenario. Someone big wants to pressure someone small. File a complaint and threaten with severe legal action. What will the laywer of the smaller firm/guy/whatever say: well, you could fight it but then you don't know for sure what the outcome will be and it'll suck up all your time in the mean time, you still run the risk of financially bleeding to death before the end by means of legal cost or bad PR so the only realistic option you have is to simply give into their demands which will include a gag order so nobody else will know about it.

The other way around? Yeah right. Do you have the means and time to fight a big boy all the way to the top? No, I didn't think so. Even governments seem to be unable to make them play by the rules in ways that will hurt their revenue seriously if they don't comply. And it takes even them years to get there.

And what about organized crime then? Oh geez, how long before they move themselves to a country that has different laws, simply doesn't care less, is corrupt anyway, whatever.

No, sledgehammers like this should be restricted only to people and organizations that already have been proven to be (part of) a criminal organization by existing traditional laws.

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