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Originally Posted by gideongallery
i love this arguement
the movie industry is arguing we need new laws to deal with piracy BECAUSE it killing the industry
the facts prove it not doing damage at all.
i never said it justifed stealing/piracy just refuting the bogus logical statement
we don't need new laws
piracy is probable not growing at all ( it just moved from invisible behind the scenes to a publically countable )
so we don't need to change the laws in any way
they work just fine. If you respect fair use.
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Piracy has definitely grown. To think it hasn't is just being ignorant. Sure warez sites have always existed but before broadband was popular movies were almost never downloaded or uploaded beacause of the time and cost involved. there were no torrent sites but even worse than tha now are the file locker sites, making it easy for any idiot, even if they are too stupid/lazy to set up torrents to download, they can sure as hell download from megaupload/mediafire/fileserve, etc.
technology would be a better way to kill piracy but when they keep coming out with new ways to pirate movies/music, it makes it a difficult cat and mouse game.
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but what if piracy is actually dropping it just appears to going up because it move from the invisible behind the scene to a publically and counted medium.
what if all the people torrenting tv shows are just the same people who borrowed cassettes from their neighbours.
you could count the latter, you can count the former, but the number is exactly the same
why use the fact that you can count it as a justification to take way the right from the new technology.
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the number is the same as what? there is a huge difference between lending tapes to your friends or even burning copies of dvd's and blu-ray vs uploading it to a public medium where anyone with an internet connection has the ability to download it. i highly doubt those friends were lending their tapes to over 100,000 others who are able to keep them forever.
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you seriously need to read the case law that established the fair use
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I have no problems with people burning a couple copies for friends but when you upload to the internet, fair use goes out the window.