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Originally Posted by gideongallery
Even the torrent sites are not DIRECTLY profiting from the copyright infringement, like the record companies in this case.
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You have to put the crack pipe down. You have said some whacked out stuff in the past and you always make good arguments, but this is dead WRONG!
Let me explain it:
Guy builds torrent site.
Guy fills torrent site with a bunch of torrents to all kinds of music.
People start coming to the site because it has free music on it.
Site gets popular.
Guy sells advertising or puts some kind of advertising on the site.
Guy makes money from said advertising.
Guy profits DIRECTLY from copyright infringement.
Every person who visits a torrent site to download music is not covered by fair use. Even if half of them are that means half of them are not that means half of the income from that site is derived from copyright infringement.
Now here is where you explain to me how torrents work and DMCA and you can't kill a technology because some people use it for illegal purposes and someone somewhere in Canada paid an extra 6 cents on a blank CD they bought which means you can download all the music you want for free and another guy can't get to a record store and doesn't have a credit card so he can't use Itunes or something similar so he has no choice but to get his music from the torrent sites and really every use anyone could ever come up with for downloading music off the torrent site is actually covered by fair use.