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Originally Posted by Ethersync
Is your goal to use these threats of lawsuits as another source of income or to scare people into paying for your content through site memberships and DVDs?
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both
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Originally Posted by Ethersync
If anything I think it will just push people to use tubes and direct download sites like Rapidshare or one of the dozen other sites offering the same functionality.
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We are also aggressively dealing with our content on tubes and download sites like rapidshare. We sent out thousands of DMCAs in September alone.
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Originally Posted by Ethersync
It's also possible that people hearing about these lawsuits and seeing people publicly humiliated, not for theft, but for watching porn, may backfire and make people more reluctant to type in their personal details and join a site.
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In my experience, no one really cares about what happens to *someone else*.
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Originally Posted by Ethersync
Have you filed copyrights for all your content with the government? Because judges will look for this if someone decides to go to court and may throw your whole case out if you have not.
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Yes.
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I am totally in support of you doing what you feel is necessary to legally protect your intellectual property. I do not think this is the answer though and I would not be surprised if the money you get from this will last at most a couple years.
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I'll take it.
