Lapizuli - 6:59 pm on Aug 19, 2011 (gmt 0)

The problem isn't as ethically clear to me, because of the way the Internet works - one illegal upload, and all the rest afterwards can look legal and above-board to people with good intentions. And it's exponential, this kind of distribution.

Where does the "buck stop?" Is there a chain of diminishing responsibility? If not, and if everyone is as liable as the first person who broke the law, then how to protect people using the normal licensing processes in which illegal stuff still falls through the gaps? No more Creative Commons? No more shared licenses? Most would say that's too high a price to pay...