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Originally Posted by Nathan
Because suing the maker of the road is rediculous, why not sue the people that produced the materials needed to build the road? Or the ones that sold the land for the road? Or sue the truck-manufacturer why you are at it...
There is only one reason why the downloader is sued, to make money. Its not to fight against piracy, that's just ridiculous to claim. You can not sue the website unless it ENCOURAGES uploading infringing content (see the recent lawsuits)... You can in theory sue the tracker provider I guess, but thats hard too I think, you can obviously sue the uploader, which is the only thing that in the end does anything against copyright infringement.
I disagree with your host comment, that's like suing the ISP of the user. Obviously never going to work either.
But we are not discussing this, we are discussing downloader / uploader... the rest is something that we should never start discussing since it will just end up in a big useless fight that helps noone and just pisses you off...
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I think you should distinguish between pirac
y and pirat
e. Taking action against an individual is not the same as taking action against a worldwide crime. No one can fight piracy alone but they can do whatever they can to police their own work and get the money they are rightfully entitled to. This is about peoples work, ie. money, not secret documents at Wikileaks, so question the motive is pointless. If everyone else were doing the same, then fighting piracy will have bigger effect. Maybe organize it and ultimately go for the host who encourage it, like Pirate Bay.
Pirate Bay has been sued, the founders face possible jailtime, their host has been fined, the website and its tracker have been ordered by courts to be blocked by ISPs on DNS level. They are part of the problem, bigger problem than uploaders, and don't tell me all of that happened without reason.
If A is more damaging than B or C, we could still leave out A from the discussion, but that doesn't change the fact that A is still the one creating most damage. Each case is individual and unique, "what if" "then..", but the logic doesn't change. Even ISPs or software developers can be targeted if there are good reasons to believe they are bigger part of a problem.