How can online piracy be stopped?

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To give a straight answer: YES, there are technical ways to stop piracy. However, such methods have a myriad of problems when attempting to be used in the real world: (1) They require that any protected media be run on sealed, black-box style machines. read more

It's a broad coalition of the Hollywood studios (Disney , News Corp, Sony, Viacom and Time Warner), the music business, a range of entertainment industry trade groups, plus the companies that enable access to content—AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cablevision. read more