Piracy: Too expensive to stop. This debate essay will try to prove why the governemnt shouldn't be cracking down on piracy.

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Imagine a 14-year-old boy being arrested by the FBI and being investigated and put into prison and about 5 million dollars being a year, just to keep this boy in jail all because he decided to download some music off the internet. Many people have ways of downloading movies, music and software for no cost at all. This act of downloading is illegal, since people are not paying for the copyrighted materials. "Cracking down" means to …

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…this is insanity, because of all the effort and money that would be put into it. If the government tries and fails at cracking down on piracy, it will show that the government cannot stop piracy. This will lead to increased piracy. Eventually, corporations will release products with very tight encryption and authentication requirements that cannot be hacked around or distributed. Eventually, people will have to obtain things the old fashion way: at the store.