CiS- The Copyright Paradox

“The Copyright Paradox” by Jonathan Band talks about how the internet has given rise to the crack down of copyright laws on big organizations rather than the individual. Copyright law is powerless to stop the onslaught of Internet piracy. Libraries and other high profile entities like universities and large corporations are likely to follow the laws and contractual terms that apply to them, because they are law abiding institutions; and because they know that they would be sued if they did not follow the law. Individual infringers on the other hand are not law abiding, because they know they are unlikely to get caught. The problem with stopping the law abiding individuals is the high cost of enforcing any law against the infringers. Each of the hundreds of millions of computers attached to the internet is a potential distributor of unlawful copies. If the government was to shut down every illegal downloading program in the US, how would it be able to stop the rest of the world? Could copyright laws be used by the world?