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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
the music industry does it and it does work.
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No, it doesn't work. Well if you consider annoying someone only slightly and it takes them 30 more seconds to find a working file, then in which case I guess you could consider it to "work". We're not dealing with dial-up connections anymore. You are in the age of broadband. You are in the age of someone being able to download a 700MB movie in under 30 minutes. It takes seconds to download a 3MB MP3, then add a comment that it's fake so that others can avoid it.
Even so... the fake torrents uploaded really can only affect the public torrent sites. It will do SHIT against private torrent sites, especially those that are invite-only.
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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
to be fair this isnt where the problem is.. these private communities dont hurt the industry as much as the open large ones.
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The problem is getting bigger with the private communities everyday and more and more people are getting their torrents from there. True, the problem isn't AS big as the public torrent sites, but it's getting there. It’s a cancer and not the good kind either. Wait.. there’s a good kind of cancer? Yep, the chocolate ones, they are delicious.
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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
lol its not that simple. you would use much the same methods they use , rotating ip's on hundreds of computers.
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Even so, in the age of broadband this is nothing more than a slight annoyance factor. The amount of time and money needed to start up this service to "combat piracy" wouldn't pay off. It just wouldn't dissuade enough people to warrant the creation. I mean seriously... I don't have cable (I have crappy DSL) but one of my friends has the cheapest package from them. He can download something at like 700kbps.... he can download an entire DVD-rip (4.37GB) in 3 to 4 hours. That's crazy!