With little incentive to prosecute and few primary publishers of institutional content making noises about digital rights, these publishers and distributors seem for the most part to have sidestepped the current piracy debate.
Today’s baseline personal publishing technologies – word processing, email, messaging and Web posting – make it easy to to ignore laws before creating or onpassing protected content, the expectations for changing human behavior will be low for some time to come. We have met the pirates – and “they are us”.
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