Canadian government proposes website-blocking system for piracy websites
Where does the article mention a website-blocking system? I&#x27;m curious as to the technical details. I&#x27;m <i>sure</i> it&#x27;ll work this time.<p>&quot;For Canada to have an innovative and flourishing digital economy, we must protect copyright online&quot;<p>Hrmph. Citation required.<p>Anyway, I&#x27;m not sure why businesses are so concerned about copyright still. Maybe this is specific to Canada? But country-specific things aside:<p>* The DMCA already makes it easy enough to keep things like KickAssTorrents offline, which was honestly the closest I&#x27;ve seen to a good tracker going mainstream.<p>* Steam has already shown how to &quot;best&quot; piracy to the extent that a business can. It&#x27;s not via copyright laws. Everyone thought rampant piracy would mean Steam won&#x27;t work in Russia. That aged well.<p>* Actually combating piracy on a technical level suffers greatly from the 80&#x2F;20 rule. You can eliminate 80% of the piracy with 20% of the effort. But getting that last 20% is going to take 1000% of the remaining 80% of the work. (Sorry, yes, that was an attempt at a joke). It&#x27;s basically not going to happen. Look at how well things like optical media DRM have gone. Look at how streaming DRM is going. Look at how hard it is for even *China* to stop its people from accessing free information online, much less normal countries with normal amounts of human rights abuses stop people from getting downloads of whatever Disney&#x27;s latest remake is.<p>Dunno. As much as I hate copyright, and as much as I love free culture, it&#x27;s hard for me to get too interested or worried about stuff like this nowadays, from a legal realism standpoint.