Politics are tech idiots but lobbyists are not. It's not hard to see who made the laws for copyright. They made them because they know it's starting to be possible to moderate the internet. They'll be satisfied if they can turn 80-99% of the users into obedient sheep.
Lobbyists are just as dumb as politicians. You think every CEO and their lapdog is a Bill Gates? Hell, no. I would be surprised if they knew little more than the bare minimum about what their businesses do. As for moderating the internet, that's still a long ways off. There is no existing monitoring system that works so effectively that it can stop a hacker or a terrorist from coordinating their shit. Hell, ISIS uses twitter to recruit, in some cases. You really think it's getting easier to moderate it? If anything, the greedier fucks trying to run the show are just getting dumber and greedier by the day.
Yes, you can solve intellectual property issues on the internet --although you can only resolve it from cultural products because the point of this protection is to block the majority of exchanges but not all.
1,000 Doug Walker and TFS fans say "eat shit" to your intellectual property rights. Hell, your interpretation of "Fair Use" probably matches their own. Spoiler alert: "Fair Use" isn't a defense. You can't riff on a movie and monetize the video you do said riffing, then bitch when the copyright owner issues a take-down notice. The best you can do is ask youtube to overlook the violation.
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This is thanks to Google/Youtube/Twitter/Facebook/etc. getting bigger and bigger coupled with AI moderators.
It's now very easy to delete posts on the main sites sites people use as well delete their search results when they want to go to smaller websites. -> You have solved the main issue.
Then, you need laws to go further and punish smaller websites. You must make it possible to slow down their bandwidth or directly ban them form DNS servers. -> You shrink the number of "bad" users further.
Once you have done most of the cleaning you have most specific solutions like monitored torrents/send fine with ISP (which would be inefficient as your main solution) or sending lawyers to take down websites Nintendo style.
AI isn't good at moderating. I've already established this in another thread (ironically, related to the forums as a whole) that, while AI technology has advanced and is a bit more reliable, it's still exploitable and could do with more improvement. My debate opponent disagreed on the basis of "eat shit" and promptly fucked off out of that thread.
A law being passed to outlaw free speech and the like on other sites which isn't blatantly objectionable and/or already illegal wouldn't go over well. I've already issued the obligatory "the end is nigh!" doom-speech, so I'll spare you the details. Suffice it to say, if you think this EU bill is some shenanigans, a law that effectively neutralizes smaller sites would see a pretty mean backlash. People like their porn. People like to express their retardation in a hug-box, too.
Bandwidth has as much to do with the user side as it does server-side. You attack the primary server, a smart site-owner will have alternatives, or a backup, or even a discord. You can't shrink the "bad" user population as easily as you're proposing. Oppression only works if the opposition has already submitted. Look at the recent shit-show with Infowars. That's
still ongoing, and the various platforms are
still taking shit for it. I doubt it will let up anytime soon, either. Also, Infowars is a small, almost irrelevant base. Imagine that multiplied by about 300 million. Or 600 million. You get the point.
Nobody sends a lawyer to your ISP. What happens when you pirate content is, if the rights owner catches wind of it, they issue a cease and desist to your ISP, specified to you. Your ISP will then decide if they want to humor the rights owner, or tell them to eat shit. Also, in this instance,
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ISP's are literally the only thing keeping Wicked Pictures or Disney from outright shit-stomping your ass into a mudhole every time you pirate something.
I think lobbies know what they are doing.
They know jack-shit about what they're doing. They're going by a 15-year-old FOX broadcast about 4chan in how they approach that cesspool. You think politicians are out of touch? Bruh, even EA's spokespersons are literal retards about their own content. A lobbyist is just the guy who communicates what the special interest groups want and campaigns fiercely to push it through. It works, too, because they're mostly empty-headed only good at being told how to use the toilet or harass a governor. The guys behind the scenes you need to be direct your frustration at are the greedy CEO's and other boardroom suits who aren't interested in your rights as long as nobody is knocking down their doors looking for blood.
