DWB

Need to correct you on that, as it goes a step further. It is stealing + giving that stolen material away for free, conditioning an entire generation of what should be consumers, into thinking that everything should be free.

The industry has always had pirates, but at least they used to charge for what they stole. The same with the DVD side of the business, there have been pirates there back when it was only VHS, but the difference is, they stole them and SOLD them. They didn't hang out in the parking lot of a video store, handing out free copies of every movie that was inside the video store.

There is a huge difference between pirates of old vs modern pirates. Pirates of old sold what they stole. I can at least respect that. Modern pirates use what they steal as a loss leader in an attempt to sell something else. And some dumb asses just steal it and give it away for internet cred.

Thanks to Robbie, Borked, and Sticky Fingers, we've cut our piracy from paysites down by 90% or higher. Yes, really. Almost everything of mine out there today is either old DVD content or old site content that we're either still cleaning up or strategically leaving some online. So we adapted, and we are far from dying. Business is not what it was a few years ago, but at the same time we have been seeing a lot of growth over the past 6 - 9 months, so I believe our efforts are finally paying off.