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Originally Posted by Robbie
But you have to understand...the things I've done to stay successful, I had DamianJ saying every step of the way that none of it would work. I even gave him a user/pass to prove he couldn't download our members area movies. He went in and right clicked the tiny, low res version I GIVE for download and claimed "victory"
Dude, trust me...I've never met Damian. He may be a nice guy in real life. And he may have some good ideas in the field of email marketing. But that's where it ends in my opinion.
He has been nothing but disrespectful and before I put him on ignore for being so disrespectful I couldn't help but notice that he tried to discourage anybody from protecting themselves and their income.
It doesn't make any sense to me, but that's what he does.
As far as this law goes...It's obvious to me that STEALING is not a business model and it's killing many companies (talking mainstream). It has to be curtailed. It destroyed my affiliate side of my business. Caused me to lay off all 3 employees I had.
It isn't right. And "yes" it's time for something to replace the outdated DMCA.
I've been pretty damn successful at this. And I've "adapted" each time and had great success to whatever came my way.
In the end it doesn't matter what you or I think about this. It's gonna happen (hopefully sooner than later).
I don't see any downside to my business from this law. All I see is a definite UPSWING in money.
I think that the folks screaming about "losing our freedom" by stopping people from stealing are being drama queens. That's just my opinion.
In the end...it's going to happen. And I hope that you and the rest of my peers here on GFY are able to hang on until then and then be able to prosper as you should from your hard work.
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To clarify, I'm only defending the points Damian has made in this thread and not the points he's made in other threads. I'm certainly not defending his general behaviour. I'm also not defending the 'losing our freedom' idiots as I agree that they are also a bunch of drama queens.
My only points are that it's natural for profits to drop in a more open market and that there have always been unintended consequences when governments have been given more power so it's not realistic to expect profits to ever return to what they were and it's probably not a good idea to give more power to a government which has always had a generally anti-porn sentiment.