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Originally Posted by Robbie
Gideon...could you please explain to all of us what a "piracy tax" is?
Are you trying to tell me that the Canadian govt. is now taking money on stolen stuff too?
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canadian government put a tax on every cd purchased, that money goes into a pool that is claimable by copyright holders
this tax was requested by CRIA and granted by the government
the canadian supreme court ruled that since all three conditions of a contract were met by that transaction (offer acceptance and consideration) we aren't violating copyright laws by downloading from peer to peer.
Many other countries have a similar tax, including sweden,
if uploading can be declared legal their would be no liablity for copyright infringement for content covered by the tax.
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And by the way...since you love to back stuff up on the internet instead of at your own home.
Why don't you quit being a cheapskate and just get a server. You can get a virtual server for 9 bucks a month and back up all of your precious t.v. shows without causing piracy and content theft.
But I know you won't. You'll have some other excuse. That's what makes your threads so funny to me. 
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1. seed density is like 20k which means that there are 20,000 point or redundancy, a single host has only 1 point of redundancy. Which means to get the same level or redundancy i would need to spend 180,000/ month.
2. if free not 9/month.
if you think that free = 9/month
i have 20,000 pennies i would like to sell you for $8/each
that a great deal because that less then free.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
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I really hope you are doing another kids riding around in vans rant because i don't think you are this stupid
every major corporation in the world uses sms server and ghost of the base os. They don't backup all the repetitive os information to their tape servers. they make a ghost image and backup the confidential private information to the backup servers.
None of those companies waste money buying tons of servers to backup the redundant base that doesn't need any confidentiality.
Torrent fall into that catagory of backup, backup that needs redundancy and availablity but no confidentiality.
BTW if torrents were recognized as this type of backup
You could create a self cleaning network that would automagically kill any virus
A clean base pc with no connection to the outside world could be used as a primary seed
all the other pcs would simply do a hash check on every dll on the os and if they found a difference they could re download the correct dll from the local swarm cleaning the machine.
That type of technological advancement is being prevented by the refusal to accept torrents as a non confidential backup.
BTW why the fuck do you think that tv shows that are broadcast thru the air need confidentiality.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
kane you just don't understand how things work like gideon does. He is sooooo smart.
You see, people weren't even able to make "backups" of anything until torrent sites came along.
We all have to allow people to steal our stuff in order to keep gideon fat, happy, and dumb. It's the only way.
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you could timeshift content before the vcr, you just had to spend $10k on VTR.
you could backup before torrents, you just had to spend 180,000/ month to get the same level of redundancy. granted you would not use it for anything that you need to keep confidential but for everything else why would you waste the resources.
BTW some older dr who episodes backup up to the local archive at the BBC would have been irrevocably lost had it not been for the private collections of viewers and torrents (BBC got them back from torrents). So the arguement that old style backups are superior to torrents as a backup is proven to be 100% false.