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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....
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Yes yes, whatever. We've made the bet, no need to go on about it. Dull.
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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.
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No idea what point you are failing to make here? File sharers are file sharers. OK. And professionals rip blu rays. Yes, because that is impossible to do unless you are paid?
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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
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you don't seem to understand IRC or Usenet very well. There is no payment. The stuff is just there. you can get it. no one is getting paid.
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...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...
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So piracy is stopped?
Of course not.
Again, not sure what point you are making.
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As for anti SOPA/PIPA protests I did not see anything special
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It was the largest protest the internet has seen. Ever. Maybe you were sick that day?
Look, the point is that torrents are really really old school. Anyone savvy has moved on to something else. So blocking UK access to one torrent tracking site will achieve nothing. Do you have a counterpoint to make to that argument or do you want to just waffle saying nothing?