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@damianJ
We will see after kim.coms trial who will win the 100$. The trial is very very on. The US gov has a fat case against him and all his lawyers have is semi-flase paperwork for the NZ police. A thin straw to grasp at....
What you fail to understand about file sharers is that they are just what their name says: File sharers.
They do not go about getting the new DVD rip of "mission impossible 5" before anybody else and they do not get to make a lot of bank with such a product. Professionals go about acquiring such material.
So to address your argument of "how much people running IRC channels make?" the answer is: its irrelevant, what is relevant is: where they get it from, AND how they process payment ...nothing else matters...I know because it happened to warez 10 years ago...the scene went to shit...the big groups got hit, the "sharers" had nothing more to share....end of story...warez piracy profits were not stopped completely but they were reduced to a JOKE...
As for anti SOPA/PIPA protests I did not see anything special...a few pirate websites like google and you tube crying like little bitches about being too good to enforce the law and lots of worthless EMO hippies complaining about their free porn rights...the patriot act had lots of opposition and got shot down 2 times i think...but they passed it anyway.....
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