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I'm about as big an intellectual property hawk as anyone out there. I believe in aggressive prosecution of those who copyright laws, and in any reasonable measure being taken by IP holders to protect the means of distribution (protected CDs, ACC codecs, whatever)
This is an untenable overreaching though. To ban something that is designed and built for legitimate purposes because it offers the possibility of illegal use smacks of prior restraint. I prefer the current method of determent, where companies hire subcontractors to flood the networks with corrupted and incomplete files, to make the illegal usage frustrating and time-consuming.
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