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Originally Posted by jayeff
What you wrote seems all very logical and positive. The fundamental flaw is that the appeal of torrent sites isn't that they provide free content: plenty of sites do that. Their appeal is that they provide free access to content which isn't supposed to be free. Any torrent site which allowed itself to get loaded up with content that people want to give away, would lose its audience.
There will always be things like this, which allow a few people an edge but do not scale up. That they can at most only benefit a small minority - to the detriment of most - is why, rightly, they must be seen as "the enemy".
Zango is the same: it would collapse if we all began promoting Zango installs instead of sponsors. If every single one of us hired effective black-hat SEO outfits, we would be back with the same level playing field as we had before the first one came along. In every such case, the only lasting impact is to cut someone else in on our profits who does not in any way help increase those profits.
That's the price of playing along with short-term greed and that is why a legitimate industry must distance itself from all such things and the people associated with them. That doesn't change just because it isn't immediately obvious how to shut them down.
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When was the last time anyone tried getting a torrent? Its generally a pain in the ass, slow, (especially if the file is unpopular and there are no seeders), you have to configure port forwarding on your routers if you want decent speed, which is beyond the ability of many people. At the end your not even guaranteed the file is what it says it is, no assurance on quality, or if its going to be something you even wanted in the first place, once you see it. Not to mention, many are frightened of malware and wont download things from shady bittorrent sites.
Bittorrent is no panacea of piracy.
iTunes works, because its a hell of a lot more convenient than pirating music from p2p ever was. Offer assured quality, and convenience and people will still buy what your selling. Part of the problem is, so many adult sites are almost perfect examples of low grade web development as it existed in 1995. Ugly, a bitch to use, shitty quality, unprofessional. I sure as hell wouldn't trust sites like that with my CC#, and most others wont.
