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DWB · 03-07-2011, 09:44 PM

IMHO, hosting companies (all of you) are part of the problem. While legally your pirate clients may be able to do what they are doing, morally... you have fucked up and are assisting in fucking over an entire industry.

Shame on every hosting company who provides a platform for pirate boards and known tube pirates. It is because of you many of these sites can exist. Without you, there would only be torrents and legal tube sites.

If any of you valued long term business and/or morals OVER a few bucks, you would terminate accounts with multiple DMCA notices. Be it 10 or 100 notices, you create a threshold and when they cross it, they are gone. End of story. This is your business right to make this decision. This has nothing to do with hiding behind legal loopholes and everything to do with doing the right thing and changing your terms and business model.

As more and more sites are closing, their servers are also shutting down. Maybe you have done the math and there are more pirate sites opening than legit sites closing. Maybe not. But I just wanted each and every one of you to know that you are part of the problem, just as those who make bullets are equally responsible as those who make guns and the stores that sell them.

03-07-2011, 09:44 PM
DWB Registered User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Encrypted. Access denied. Posts: 31,779	My disappointment with hosting companies their support of piracy IMHO, hosting companies (all of you) are part of the problem. While legally your pirate clients may be able to do what they are doing, morally... you have fucked up and are assisting in fucking over an entire industry. Shame on every hosting company who provides a platform for pirate boards and known tube pirates. It is because of you many of these sites can exist. Without you, there would only be torrents and legal tube sites. If any of you valued long term business and/or morals OVER a few bucks, you would terminate accounts with multiple DMCA notices. Be it 10 or 100 notices, you create a threshold and when they cross it, they are gone. End of story. This is your business right to make this decision. This has nothing to do with hiding behind legal loopholes and everything to do with doing the right thing and changing your terms and business model. As more and more sites are closing, their servers are also shutting down. Maybe you have done the math and there are more pirate sites opening than legit sites closing. Maybe not. But I just wanted each and every one of you to know that you are part of the problem, just as those who make bullets are equally responsible as those who make guns and the stores that sell them.