[myself6]

That wouldn't work either. File names change, file characteristics change. They might be able to have software determine it was a video file being sent but not WHAT the video is of. That would require reassembling all the packets and a human viewing the resulting video to determine if this file was illegally transfered. There are many more arguments that can be made after this is done as to the transfers legitimacy, but it isn't going to happen.

Fundamental changes would need to take place in the way networking actually works on the "Internet". Changes that would make it slower, less flexible, more restrictive. The changes needed would effectively destroy the "Internet".

The old media companies are screwed, and I couldn't be happier. I take great pleasure in watching the demise of the socialist department of PR.

[Common Tator]

That wouldn't work either. File names change, file characteristics change. They might be able to have software determine it was a video file being sent but not WHAT the video is of. That would require reassembling all the packets and a human viewing the resulting video to determine if this file was illegally transfered. There are many more arguments that can be made after this is done as to the transfers legitimacy, but it isn't going to happen.

You are assuming that the war will be fought with computers and software that exists today.

10 to 15 years from now today's machines will be as obsolete as a DOS 6.0 PC with 640 K of Ram and a 40 meg hard drive running at 16 MHZ. The faster the hardware, the wider the data bus, and the cheaper the memory the easier pattern recognition becomes.

You sound like the GM guy I debated in the 1970s who argued that auto body construction could not be automated because welding required humans.

You can not expect to fight tomorrow's war against todays technology.