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There is a way to make piracy obsolete which almost happened in France: the Licence Globale. https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_globale (content in French).

The concept is to allow the exchange of copyrighted cultural goods and collect a fee at the ISP level to finance those back.

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Thank you for this. What a world we could have had if this law had passed!

I co-founded a company in 2006 which intended to do something very similar to this. We ran out of money when the economy collapsed in 2008. I’m still passionate about the idea, but it’s high-risk for a private corporation in the US to pull off.

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