Theos-Talk Archives (March 1997 Message tl00159)

Eldon,

Thank you for posting this.  The major difficulty involved in enforcing
copyright on the internet is the time and expense of the civil action in
relation to the usually very limited resources of the defendant.  In other
words, you can almost never collect the judgement that costs a fortune to
get.

The other difficulty is the large number of fanatics that will respond to
such a lawsuit by anonymously posting the material all over the place once a
suit is filed, making legal action against them prohibitively expensive and
time consuming.

Chuck