Call for study of threat from “offline” filesharing
Policymakers urgently need better information on people’s attitudes to copyright law, according to a report out today warning that friends swapping hard drives and memory sticks could pose as great a piracy threat to media companies as online filesharers.
Storage capacity is going steadily up and up, cost per GB is steadily coming down and bits are never going to be hard to copy.
No matter what steps corporations and governments take to combat file-sharing it will be impossible to stamp it out completely.
