All of us have suffered from piracy and the lesson from the sea is that piracy will always be with us, yet, I think there is a very important perspective that I have not seen referred to previously, let's call it the magic of the 13 knot rope and Sharps .45-70. In the old West, rustlers were regulated by Regulators with the aforementioned two tools and they were very effective and produced satisfying results for all but the regulated...
I submit the following proposition, video piracy will not be seriously contained on the Internet until someone gets paid for doing the regulating. Hollywood already has a version of this and pays serious bucks to keep their movies off the Internet, what is needed is an affordable version for the fetish video industry...
What I feel is missing is the recognition that piracy regulators are needed. It is the demand for such services that will eventually tempt some underemployed computer codeslinger to write a program that can cheaply and easily embed a unique serial number on DVD's and streaming video. The sooner we recognize this and make such need well known, the sooner it will come technically...