Comment by reworkal
2 days ago
It's funny to remember that the legal definition of something is almost never aligned with how the technology actually works.
Like for instance the legal definition for "encryption at rest" is often wildly different than what a customer thinks that means, what an average SRE think it means, and what a cryptologist thinks it means.
All those regulations like GDPR mean nothing if I can convince a random judge or regulator that an apple is actually an orange.
These technologies are moving so fast that it makes sense why there a lag in understanding and any real attempts at regulating agaists the negative effects.
I don't think there needs to be a lot of understanding that downloading copyrighted content and selling it is illegal under the current law.
The only unclear thing is if the law should be changed or trillion dollar corporations should be liquidated and their executives put in jail(a’la Kim Dotcom). I think we already know the answer.