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Robbie,
what you do is different compared to what lightspeed and such are doing! Please do not mix shit up... YOU are tagging content so you know who UPLOADED it in the first place after ripping it from your sites!!! This is _NOT_ what lightspeed et al are doing!!
At least the articles and everything in this thread scream they are not.. What they are doing is suing people that DOWNLOADED it from torrents.
Now, first of all, obviously I will get stupid replies because of who I am, but I will give you my opinion anyway... when reading it, please do not forget that I am one of the biggest content owners on the web, not only the 5000 or so Mofos and Brazzers scenes, but I also own the rights to over 160000 amateur clips (yes, 160 thousand)...
I can basically completely understand why Steve et al are doing this. It seems like a great way to make some extra cash from the assholes out there pirating the content. Point taken.
My fear is two fold:
1) Just like was mentioned here, this WILL result in families being fucked because their son downloaded porn from some torrent. (It happened in the RIAA cases often enough)
2) We all know our industry... and the shady characters in it... how long until some site owner figures out, that its much easier to extort $500 from canceled members by filing false lawsuits than it is to make them retain for $500 worth of rebills?
I can see the headlines already... let's just hope this does not work that well that people are deciding that its much easier to make money by suing people for "pirated content" than it is to actually run a site...
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