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Originally Posted by kane
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.
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except the guy makes the exact same money per view weather the music is uploaded by a pirate or by the artist themselves
The advertising revenue is per page view, it doesn't care if the page view comes from pirated copy or the authorized copy
compare that
record company puts copyright material on cd
record company sells cd to consumer
every dollar made is directly linked to the infringement
your own statement proves that it indirect they get the money from the advertisers,
that revenue exists weather the page in question is infringing or non infringing.
oh and btw the indirect nature is what made the vcr legal too
vcr at the time could be used for two purposed to copy stuff illegally (the manual actually warned against that)
or to timeshift content you paid for
the fact that some of the potential use was infringing didn't make the technology illegal
nor did it require them to put some sort of check before they sold the device to make sure it was not used for the illegal purpose.
Such an act would a have completely prevented timeshifting (how could you tell what i was going to do with it when i got home)