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Re:French ‘Three Strikes’ Law Slashes Piracy, But Fails to B... by mikeash on Saturday March 31, 2012 @01:48PM (#3780978)
That's foolish. If the only point of laws was to cut crime, you could trivially reduce crime to zero by legalizing everything. Clearly that is not the point.
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Re:French ‘Three Strikes’ Law Slashes Piracy, But Fails to B... by waterlesscloud on Saturday March 31, 2012 @02:46PM (#3781143)
It's a law intended to help reduce violations of another law.

It has succeeded in doing so.

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Re:French ‘Three Strikes’ Law Slashes Piracy, But Fails to B... by mikeash on Saturday March 31, 2012 @02:53PM (#3781167)
Perhaps. It's still not the point of laws in general to reduce crime, as I said.
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