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Besides my opinion about file sharing this scheme seems to bypass the legal system but pretends to be based on legal grounds. What we have here is [more] privatization of the legal system and bypassing democracy.

To state the obvious: If you have someone doing things you don't like in office you can vote them out and replace them with someone who doesn't do those things. This is already a slow and cumbersome process that may take decades to materialize.

Or does this provide a framework for implementing direct democracy? Have a website with law proposals that can be implemented in a privatized way, have the citizens vote for and against them then pressure corporations to implement them.



Copyright monopolists employ lobbyists. They basically buy laws which favor and protect their own monopolies and rent seeking. Voting does absolutely nothing to stop this trillion dollar industry.


Democracy is like Voodoo, it only works if you believe in it.




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