They'll never stop.<p>And, they're using your own money against you. Sales revenue, all the higher and more profitable as they tighten their control.<p>Your tax dollars. Here in the U.S., there is an ongoing conversation about the continued efforts to "criminalize" IP infringement. Not only do the "big players" already have the advantage in terms of the ability to pay -- potentially endlessly -- for attorneys. They are trying to get the government, with its deep pockets and salaried attorneys, to take over prosecution of civil law infringements.<p>Which also means less government attention to crime that may actually concern you, its citizens, more.<p>Now, if the world were getting better, one might debate whether these are useful changes. Instead, it seems most people who take the time to understand this, and who aren't benefiting from tacking on another 20 years to Micky Mouse's exclusivity, find the changes both absurd and a hindrance to real productivity and creativity.<p>Workers in the U.S. have had to compete not only against lower wages, but also against lower costs of producers who don't respect and pay for the IP they use. Some of the same companies that scream bloody murder about infringement in the U.S., turn around and use those producers abroad because of their lower costs.<p>They're using your own money against you.<p>(And, I've got nothing against the rest of the world catching up. I do resent and oppose the arbitrage practiced by such entities, in combination with convenient legal and political collusion, to greatly enrich themselves while perhaps even impeding real progress.)<p>P.S. Regarding the "tricks" used to escalate their control, mentioned by the parent commenter. One of those is the current proliferation of "trade agreements". One member is convinced, bribed, coerced to increase an IP "right". The trade agreement includes an automatic mechanism for "harmonization" between members. The other member states use said "harmonization" as the cause that increases that right in their own state.<p>People living in the latter may never have agreed to e.g. another extension to length of copyright. But suddenly they have it, via "harmonization". And politicians saying, "The treaty made us do it."<p>This has all been discussed before, on the Web. But I haven't seen it surface prominently, in a while, and it bears repeating for those who are just becoming familiar with the issue.