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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
I stopped reading at this sentence.
I am against piracy. As far as I know, gideon is against piracy too.
What I think is stupid, is saying you have to kill all torrents because people use them for piracy, or that you should have to prove you have a right to use something before you can create a torrent or tracker.
That's fucking asinine.
Yes piracy is bad, piracy hurts sales.....but just like you can't outlaw the VCR or the CD burner because people can use them for piracy, you can't outlaw torrents either.
So that being the case, you ought to look for ways to use the situation to your advantage in ways that your competition isn't.
It's no wonder you can't get along with gideon, you keep accusing him of being for piracy when he isn't. Whenever he says something about copyright law, you read that as him being ok with people stealing your shit. He's not ok with that, as far as I know.
If he is "pro piracy" then I'll stand corrected.
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I don't think anyone wants to ban the technology of Torrents What we want to do is make sites clearly living off piracy held responsible for their actions. If we can see the number of links to illegal content the so can the owners. They are able to hide behind the DMCA law that's clearly inadequate for today.
The Internet is largely the West doing business with the West, few care if China blocks porn sites. Once you start allowing people who would buy, get it for free you lose customers and profits.