It's interesting to see the drop in torrent usage from 2011 to 2015. It makes me wonder how much easier copyright enforcement will be as cloud storage continues to grow in usage. Throw in lack of encryption and data mining and it's possible to see a day where piracy is completely under control.
This is a rubbish article. It's totally one sided, the side of copyright maximalist big business. Here's the clue:<p>"The so-called SOPA and PIPA legislation was dropped after a public backlash spurred by a publicity blitz led by Mark Zuckerberg, Google, Wikipedia and other tech powerhouses that characterized it as government censorship."<p>Google and Facebook were very late to that battle. They didn't "spearhead" anything about the anti-SOPA stuff. That was almost entirely grass roots (and not in a fake, Wagg-Ed generated way). Most of us were there, it was only 4 years ago. Heck, the reporter and his "researcher" were probably there.<p>The falsehood about Google spearheading the anti-SOPA movement is just RIAA and MPAA propaganda. Don't bother believing it - just recall for yourself.<p>And then re-read this article. It will be revealed as a sham, a pro-big-business, pro-monopoly piece of rubbish.