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Originally Posted by gideongallery
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)
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You said that torrent sites don't make money directly off of copyright infringement. I simply was pointing out the truth. You can chase it around with all the double talk you want, but if you put a link on a site to a copyrighted material without permission to do so and someone downloads that music that doesn't have the right to do so you just aided someone in committing copyright infringement. If you are selling advertising on a site that aids people in copyright infringement you are DIRECTLY profiting from it.
That is it. Torrent sites are DIRECTLY profiting off of copyright infringement. It might not be 100% of the profit that they make, but they are profiting off of it.