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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
i don't agree with you at all. i think that if millions of people woke up in the morning, started buying guns and shooting kids in playgrounds by the 100's of 1000's, we would have to look at how to stop people from acquiring guns to begin with. the gun doesn't cause murder, but that wouldn't change the fact that they would be at the core of the problem and a key focal point in successfully addressing the issue
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cars kill people should we get rid of them too
drinking alcohol
smoking
some porn models who found god say that porn degrades them
let criminalize everything that could be used badly. That is the stupidest arguement i have ever heard.
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you continually make this weak argument about "legit use" of torrent sites and refuse to accept the obvious... that they are the principle tool of mass copyright infringement and theft.
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the reason i keep going back to the "legit use" of torrents is because there are to many idiots who can count.
if 49% of torrent traffic is tv shows / 1/3 of movies fall into the catagory of aired on tv.
That means right there you have more
than 50% of torrent traffic is legit
It means that saying that the "principle tool of mass copyright infringment and theft" is a
bald face lie
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i can use your logic and say nuclear weapons don't kill people, so who cares who has them.. they are just inanimate objects. that kind of moronic, circular reasoning can go on forever. that doesn't change the fact that torrents are at the core of copyright infringement. whether or not you feel (or the law does) that there is a legitimate use for torrents, that doesn't negate the fact that their principle use is theft of music, movies and software.
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so if the LAW says that a majority of it use is legitimate it principle use is not legitimate
i suggest you look up the definition of princple
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a fundamental doctrine or tenet; a distinctive ruling opinion
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if more than 50% of the torrent traffic is people using it like a VCR how the fuck can you say the "fundamental doctrine" is anything but using it like a VCR.
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your problem is that you want to defend torrents and since you know you can't really do that while admitting they are used for widespread theft, you have to keep deflecting the conversation away to VCR's or cassettes or other mediums. that has nothing to do with a persons rights to the content they created and the terms of the license they've given for you to use it.
each time you talk about vcr's, its a quiet admission that you know your argument and position is weak and mostly indefensible.
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so because i don't blindly accept your completely bogus claim that a majority of torrent traffic is theft (when independently verifiable stats prove that it is in fact NOT) my arguement is some how weaker.