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Earlier this month, The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) published a paper called Steal These Policies: Strategies for Reducing Digital Piracy. The aim of the paper is to advance a policy in which illegal sources of digital content is reduced while legal content becomes more accessible. The executive summary provides the following overview of the problem as follows:

“The rise of broadband Internet access and cheap storage, along with the growth of digital content, has enabled digital pi­racy to flourish around the world.…