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Originally Posted by jimmycooper
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.
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Being a drama queen?
The US never gave a fuck about offline porn, so long at it stayed withing boundaries. Porn shops were everywhere in all but a few States, even in those the porn people could buy Hustler, Penthouse or Playboy and sales on a softcore version of a porn film were great.
Does a local community have the right to vote for a statesman who says "Not in my town."? If not democracy means nothing. Agreed it didn't mean a lot before, it was something though.
what the "Government" dislikes is the uncontrolled nature of the Internet. where people can basically do as they please and the anarchy that results from that.
As for Freedom of Speech offline. Well again drama queens, more like knaves, who don't have a clue. They are stupid, blind or want to hide the simple truth.
Nixon was brought down from the highest office in the land by?
Today a Presidential hopeful is being brought down by?
Clinton was hounded by?
In the UK politicians were and still are being jailed for corruption exposed by?
A UK Government was brought down by a scandal in what media?
Cricketers are facing jail for an expose in?
Fill in the gaps and see the control exercised by Government over the Press.
The people who want no fight against piracy are those deluded fools who think that the computer program they use now to reply can be free and paid for by advertising. Like Call of Duty. Or they want others to pay so they can get it for free. Delusional or freeloaders.
If there is no fight against piracy, the costs of developing the programs they use right now will have to be born by advertising. With everyone grabbing the first copies and putting up a site giving it away, so they can pay the rent, the money for investment will shrink.
I can copy anything I like and stick a finger in the air to the world. And live off the meager earnings the ads bring, because I will be competing with 1,000s of others doing the same.
The war isn't over yet, it's not been good so far. Bringing down sites that don't have 100% control on their product they publish will not end the world as we know it. Well it might mean a few more dollars to be made by those who have skills.