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Originally Posted by Nathan
I disagree regarding your ISP and software developer comments though. Unless again they actively advertise to pull in pirates.
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Examples:
Forum:
I noticed on a porn piracy forum that a filehost was personally advertising their service. "Upload to us, and we pay you X per Y downloads". The thread was even sticky. At their website, however, their TOS said something like "do not upload without authorization, blah blah...". It's quite clear that such statement is only for cosmetic and legal protection. But the thread is evidence of encouraging piracy, also the context since it was only pirated files linked on the forum.
Tube:
"Upload to us, become a porn pimp/king". While that slogan and other "prizes" is not directly commercial, it still encourage and motives the uploaders to get a "name", just like the torrent sites or newsgroups. If additionally the tube uploads are to be approved before published and there are tons of full movies from different sources with same uploader, the chances of piracy (and the hosts knowledge of it) is close to 100% in most cases.
Torrent sites (and some tubes):
"You are not allowed to upload for commercial purpose. We delete "spam" ". That statement alone leave out anything else than piracy. Well, maybe 0.01% of the porn uploaded is someone made themselves...
It's not these activities alone that bring it to the next level, ISPs or software developers. If that happens, it's mainly a consequense of criminal investigations, ie. size and amount. The number of private lawsuits and reports and the number of users is a good indicator. An ISP can be ordered to block or close a website. Law enforcements can monitor traffic live if they believe there is a good reason, no tube, p2p, Rapidshare or even Google is excempt or protected from this. A software developer can be targeted if he construct or instruct users to obstruct police investigations etc. Together with changes in laws, that's not a situation most people want, especially the pirates but ironically they are the ones partially creating the situation. Pirate Bay was originally a "host" for pirates and laughing at US laws, today they hide in caves to withstand nuclear bombs and they are resellers of the illusion called VPN. Don't you see the patterns?