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"Note how quickly we’ve moved the goalposts from “enabling” piracy to “encouraging” piracy. Lots of technology “enables” piracy; after all, it’s only 1s and 0s. In the analog world, even libraries “enable” piracy by putting a photocopier in the same building as a bunch of books. But do libraries “encourage” piracy? No, there are big signs next to the photocopier warning you about copyright law, and photocopies are prohibitively expensive to do anything more than copy a few pages for reference. Does technology “encourage” digital piracy? No, it’s only 1s and 0s."