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Originally Posted by NetHorse
Piracy can be reduced by a lot and it can happen very quickly. All it takes is for Congress to pass a bill.
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Really?
Wow. I mean, I know America is powerful and all, but are you actually saying that if congress does something, piracy throughout the world will stop?
Even if America *did* run the world, what law do you think would stop piracy? You have people selling DVDs for a buck on the streets. You have uncontrollable P2P. You have private forums. You have private FTP. You have fricking Usenet. How do you stop all that?
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Originally Posted by NetHorse
As internet connections get faster and industries lose more and more money something will be done.
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But Hollywood has made more money that ever before, for the last TWO YEARS RUNNING? They are not losing money. They are raking it in.
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Originally Posted by NetHorse
The recording industry has already dropped its policy of filing lawsuits against individual infringers in favor of partnering with ISPs to filter for unlawful content.
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Well, they tried for years to bully and lie and realised piracy went up. So now they are trying to get the ISPs to pay to police the internet. And you think that is likely to happen? Really?
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Originally Posted by NetHorse
Congress has also already introduced an amendment that would allow for "reasonable network management" practices such as deterring unlawful activity, including copyright infringement.
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So you, as a pornographer, think allowing your government to watch what you do online and censor it, if it chooses to, is A Good Thing? Are you unaware of what is going on in Australia, China, etc?
People really need to stop wasting their time worrying about something that cannot and will not ever be stopped and start using that time constructively.
Heck, how many blogs could Robbie have set up promoting CM with the tens of THOUSANDS of words he has typed here about how piracy is awful?
I guarantee you this, he would have gotten more sales doing that than he did posting here
I am not pro-piracy. I am anti-stupidity though. And fighting a fight you ain't never gonna win is a stupid fight to have.
I wrote this post called "What if everyone is wrong about piracy" some might find interesting.
http://www.adultmarketing.co.uk/2010...-about-piracy/