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stocktrader23 · 11-21-2011, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho

But that's not the point, of course you need to make money in any environment and waiting for someone else to solve your problems never works.

But if you own a copyright to something you should have the right to fully monetize it as well as the right to protect its copyright, which of course goes hand to hand.

None of which even remotely works at the moment, and I'm not talking about a criminal offense (people will always steal and you can't stop piracy) - I'm talking about a loophole in the existing legal system (DMCA) that enabled the new "standard" of not having to care about copyright on the web.

You know this and I know this but go read the past posts from those that are most vocal about this. They really think that stopping piracy is going to fix their dying business model. It would patch it up for a bit, but the ones getting rich on stolen content would start buying and getting rich on that.

I have never thought and will never think that it is OK to steal someones work. Clickcash put me in their top affiliate preview back in 2001 or 2002 and 100+ websites stole my pages, content and all. I made up to $1000 per week sometimes from them forgetting to change one of the 5 or 6 links out on my page, yes they were that stupid. I should have sued them and could have at the time but I didn't want to go into a Louisiana griping because my porn was stolen.

Several points have been made here but to summarize I think stealing is bad, copyrights last too long and no law is going to fix the paysite model like most here believe. Three different issues, people keep trying to say I'm pro piracy because of these comments and nothing could be further from the truth.