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Originally Posted by The Judge
Fantastic suggestion. So let's say I want to take down Facebook, all I have to do is create a few thousand fake social networking sites filled with popups and presto, Facebook is gone. Can't wait to start working on it.
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Torrent sites rely on their users. More users = more leechers = more uploaders = faster downloads = more returning users = more users =... (that's the way those torrent protocols were designed). Now, torrent sites have 2 kinds of users: a small group that never buys anything and a big group nontechnical people that ended up on a torrent site because the torrent sites were listed in the SERPS for some porn related keyword or because they heard about "that great free source of porn named torrent" from one of their friends and decided to google for it. So go after their SE traffic and you take away their biggest source of users (those are the only users who'd click the ads they're running).
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Originally Posted by DirtyDave
The way to stop torrents is to stop them from having sponsors. If they have copyright content then they are illegal. If they can block child porn then they can block copyright content so that is not an excuse. If a sponsor works with a site that has copyright content then both the sponser (including Google AdSense) and the site lose their merchant accounts (ability to process transactions).
If the sites can't make money then they can't pay for their bandwidth bills and they close down. Simple.
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Yes sites with illegal content are illegal. Yes, illegal sites should be taken down. Yes, thieves should be punished for their actions. Yes,... Yes,...
But if all of those things would really be that simple, don't you think all torrent (and illegal tube) sites would be gone already?