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A Modest Proposal: Three-Strikes for Print
By Ed Felten - Posted on May 13th, 2009 at 6:50 am

Yesterday the French parliament adopted a proposal to create a "three-strikes" system that would kick people off the Internet if they are accused of copyright infringement three times.

This is such a good idea that it should be applied to other media as well. Here is my modest proposal to extend three-strikes to the medium of print, that is, to words on paper.

My proposed system is simplicity itself. The government sets up a registry of accused infringers. Anybody can send a complaint to the registry, asserting that someone is infringing their copyright in the print medium. If the government registry receives three complaints about a person, that person is banned for a year from using print.

законы вселенной таким образом
устроены, что любая разумная жизнь жаждет трансгрессии
и дикого тентаклесекса с ракоскорпионами. Это не нам так
нужно, то есть не людям, это такой биологический механизм,
сформированный бесчисленными вселенными за гуголплексы
тысячелетий.