You don’t have to go back that far, just look at digital music. People were trading files on Napster, and the music industry was having a fit. Steve Jobs opened the iTunes Music Store and started selling all files for .99, people started gobbling them up, and piracy went down. Then along came Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, etc., and most people are happy to pay. Why, because it’s so much easier and convenient than trying to pirate it and get it on your phone/player.

Don’t get me wrong, people still pirate, but the percentage is low compared to what it was before these easy legal options. People will always take the easiest route, legal or illegal.

Netflix appeared, piracy dropped. And when the movie streaming market fragmented, piracy shot up. Like they say, it's a service problem.

almost as if scan your face laws only exist to obtain massive amounts of recognition data for the surveillance state.

But tech and privacy experts have warned that the laws bring with them some unavoidable downsides, including potentially driving people to seedier corners of the web.

Hmm, if only there was something in history (cough Prohibition cough drug bans cough piracy cough) that could've predicted this. It's almost like people will do the easier thing when the legal thing is harder to do.

What save person would want to get photographed or provide an ID before viewing porn?

If they truly cared about kids they would introduce mechanism where sites could declare their target audience and provide a way to punish if a company does lie.

Parents could then use parental controls.

This mechanism is more about censorship. They are aware that people are trusting less and less MSM so want to make sure they control Internet too.

Nerds. But not the elderly who are in charge of this country.

We need to start following politicians with cameras, parabolic microphones, and what-not like gargoyles in Snow Crash. Stream video while out in public, posts of their locations when their not.

If, God forfend, Farage gets into power, do you want him or his idiot flunkies having access to any information that could be used to blackmail or harass you?

Then why make a law mandating its colection?

Remember when someone posted Musk's (public) flight data? When Musk said anything could be public?

And then Musk removed the flight data.

Rules for thee but not for me. They're bloody hypocrites.

If, God forfend, Farage gets into power, do you want him or his idiot flunkies having access to any information that could be used to blackmail or harass you?

Then why make a law mandating its colection?

"unexpected"

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"unexpected"

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almost as if scan your face laws only exist to obtain massive amounts of recognition data for the surveillance state.