The copyright law can only provide sanctions when and if we are able to identify infringers. Technological security measures can stop the piracy before it happens. But all security measures, no matter how sophisticated, can be circumvented by clever hackers. This requires more than mere civil remedies.
Criminal sanctions are essential.
Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, and Hollywood's chief lobbyist, speaking before Congress on the need for more restrictive copyright law. Morality watchdog groups love it, of course. People who are fed up with the mediocrity of television programming applaud it as well. A small handful will say, as I do, that there is no adequate replacement for parental concern and supervision. But even a great many of these people, at the end of the day, will allow that perhaps it's not such a bad idea.