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Originally Posted by Caligari
I think you're full of it.
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Ah, at least we have some common ground because my opinion of you is exactly the same!
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Originally Posted by Caligari
You keep taking the lame stance that tracking ip addresses is just a money making ploy...
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Hilarious. It
is, love.
Everyone involved has said so. ACS say so, even our very own Lightspeed has said so. Do try and keep up. Go and read the acs emails.
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Originally Posted by Caligari
But consider this concept genius-
What if the real idea was to try to get your money back?
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Wow. That is funny! So you make a film for - say - 50k. And some people who wouldn't ever have bought it pirate it, and you want to get money from them, so you send out 10k john doe blackmail letters to do that? Genius!
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Originally Posted by Caligari
Did you ever, even once, consider the amount of $ LOST by these companies and these extreme measures are being taken to *recoup their losses* from piracy?
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No. Because they all say they are doing it for the cash. Otherwise they would go for the SOURCE of the piracy to stop them losing all this cash you claim they are losing.
Or they'd go after IRC, and Usenet, and private FTP.
They ONLY reason this is do-able is because of the public nature of torrent trackers. It's nothing to do with piracy, and all to do with making bank.
If someone started a campaign against the rippers I would be all behind it, this is how little you understand of my thinking.
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Why of course not because it doesn't fit into your whiny rant.
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Or because it is a fallacy. You do the math.
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Originally Posted by Caligari
Bottom line: companies are tired of getting ripped off and they will *succesfully* do whatever it takes to get their money back and then some.
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Bottom line: Piracy is unsteoppable and some dispicable fraudsters are sending out blackmail letters to people to try and make money. Judges in the UK are now stopping this happening, and it looks like they are in the US too.
So, if you LIKE the idea of blackmailing people into paying you cash, you'd better fucking work fast, kid, cos that gravy train will be derailed by the judicial system this year.