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Originally Posted by 6South
I keep saying it, the most effective strategy long term is next gen DRM and a commitment to keep it updated. No other solution will work long term. Going after the file lockers is a game of musical chairs (same for going after their payment processors). Strategies to lock the internet down completely will never be adopted. Kind of pointless to try and discuss it though, most content owners are just as lazy as everyone else and would of course prefer everyone else / anyone else pay the cost to protect their property.
This stuff has been going on for how long now? 25 years+ or so and we're no closer to a solution and the problem has in fact gotten much, much worse as it evolved into a revenue stream for the criminals.
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I agree with your understanding of the problem and how it works, however, the only true way you will cut off this epidemic is to eliminate the lifeline which is money.
Love does some things, money does all.
Not allowing payment exchange via merchant accounts will prevent this problem from being what it is today.
People were initially DDOSing this site and AK with dedicated servers at the beginning of the campaign. Now they've run out of some money and don't have near the resources they used to.
DRM isn't the longterm solution, having better control over merchant account approval is the only solution as money has the final say in anything.