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Originally Posted by kane
So why don't they do this to torrent sites that are listing their commercial free programs and selling advertising to the site? By your logic then the network should be due a portion of the income that site is making.
Oh that's right. Because the torrent sites aren't directly profiting from listing these shows. I forgot.
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you finally got there is a difference between directly profiting from infringement and indirectly profiting from infringement
selling advertising that is within the video itself couples the revenue DIRECTLY to the content since they will only see those ads if they download the video
providing a swarm based backup solution and selling advertisers space around the pages that provide (which people will see weather they download or don't download the video) is indirectly profiting from copyright infringement.
there is a huge difference between the two, sony admitted in their manual that their device could be to infringe on copyright, and even that did not justify stopping the sale of the vcr.