The real problem remains enforcement. The dilemma facing Kvamme is what the government's involvement should be, and what value it can add to the debate, outside an enforcement role. The debate extends to financing the enforcement. If so, government should accelerate the debate and the decisions. If not, let the market decide while the government works on ways to monitor illegal traffic.
Industry buy-in is important.
It's easy enough to find pirated software and files on Gnutella. I recently watched a librarian snag the full text of a Harry Potter book just to show it was available. The government already deals with complex traffic in illegal goods, so it should be able to monitor file-sharing systems to see where files came from, and then to trace the owners of those IP addresses. Yes, there is a risk of accusing some people of illegal trafficking when they only served as pass-through points. But a few properly conducted prosecutions could slow the illegal part of the data traffic to a trickle.