His Amsterdam servers seized, a 24-year-old Englishman was arrested for operating the music piracy website OiNK. This is just the latest example of international cooperation between law enforcement authorities to crack down on pirate sites. For now, that’s like trying to empty the ocean using a bucket with a hole in it. All it does is push the sites out of Western countries and into Eastern Europe and Asia.

The solution is a music licensing system that makes piracy a moot point because of the incentives to pay for what you’re getting. Until then, RIAA and its counterparts are chasing windmills in their war on copyright infringement.

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With an advanced international law degree from Georgetown University and more than 14 years of real world legal experience, Attorney Mike Young shows entrepreneurs how to protect and grow their businesses online. He's the author of Internet Marketing Legal Secrets Revealed. Not just a lawyer who focuses exclusively on Internet and marketing law, Mike’s been working with computers for more than 27 years (his first computer was an Atari 400 with 8 KiB RAM) and started representing Internet businesses back in 1996.