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Originally Posted by Caligari
and there you go again with the weak arguement of "well they wouldn't have bought it anyways."
it is amazing that you know every time in every case that those people would never have bought it in the first place! your clairvoyant powers are incredible!
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So, you are saying that the American judicial system is wrong and the judges are "weak"?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...lost-sales.ars
This isn't *my* argument, but a judge's.
Do you think he is stupid?
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Originally Posted by Caligari
but let's get beyond this angle for one minute.
what you're saying is that these people have pirated said material and should not be held responsible for their actions right?
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Fuck me sideways, are you being intentionally stupid or just trolling?
Please quote me saying anything that even RESEMBLES that.
Why do you struggle separating thinking that blackmailing innocent people is bad from piracy is good?
It's really not hard.
On one had you have me saying that sending blackmail letters to people that you have no proof committed any crime is bad. However you somehow seem to read those words as me saying piracy is great.
Once again, let me stress that I think piracy is bad. Of course it is, everyone apart from gideonmentalcase thinks that.
However, this position doesn't preclude me from thinking that the 2 bit ambulance chasing cunt lawyers are subhuman scumbags. Do you see? The two things are not mutually exclusive.
If someone can *prove* that someone downloaded a copyrighted work, then I am all for suing the fuckery out of them. Sadly, I've not seen any actual PROOF. An IP address is as far removed from proof as a picture of a cheeseburger is.
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Originally Posted by Caligari
but it can instill fear, which is a good thing.
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Damn right. It can install fear into decent credit card owning porn buyers thinking that 'we' are fucking outrageous cunts for threatening to blackmail people over porn. A teacher might think that he best not actually BUY membership to a porn site in case they decide to go public with the lists, much easier to just watch a tube, right!
We've got a bad enough rep already. Dialers, hidden prechecked cross sales, shit sites with no content, banging cards etc etc.
We really don't need to add quasiblackmail to the list of bad things the public thinks about us or we'll scare off the last few remaining prospects out there.
You need to look at the big picture.
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Originally Posted by Caligari
And with coverage in the local news and the schools etc., the message will be heard.
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All the 'message' does is increase people's awareness of how easy it is to steal porn. If you look at alexa around the time the Jamie RIAA case blew up you will see a HUGE increase in their traffic.
You would think the publicity would work against piracy, in fact, all evidence I've looked at proves the exact opposite and it educates people about how to pirate more efficiently.
Thanks for playing, pick up your goody bag at the door.