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Originally Posted by DWB
Why? Do you think it's OK to rape someone and film it just because we're in the porn business? How about child porn or sex with animals. How about kids having sex with animals? Simulated forced sex? Shitting on people's faces? All porn depending on who you ask.
Just because we make porn for a living doesn't mean why have to disagree rules and regulations being put on the internet.
We all have to abide by rules. Only criminals and anarchists want to live in a lawless society. Which one are you?
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You see, that's the problem with freedom of speech. There is always someone saying something you disagree with. So, the choice boils down to if you want freedom of speech or not. It's black and white.
Also, and more importantly, it's impossible to put rules and regulations on the internet because it is global and there is no global law. Even if there was, people will ALWAYS find a way round them, like TOR for example. Like the second level internet.
I believe that the whole money/piracy thing is a red herring anyway. Piracy existed for free a very long time before file lockers came around. And it will continue to exist if file lockers credit card processessing is stopped. Usenet, IRC, private FTP, forums, torrents etc all exist for free.
I don't believe the problems the industry are facing are much to do with piracy. More to do with 1) A massive double dip recession that is fucking over EVERYONE 2) Years of treating our customers like cunts (circle jerks, card banging, hidden x sales, dialers, throttling bandwidth, content rotation, spamming, selling email addresses etc etc.)
We'll see though. If you all do manage to close all CC processessing for file lockers and then everyone sees a HUGE growth in sales, I will eat my hat and apologise. However, I have a feeling that won't happen.
It's nice to have something to blame for a greedy industry's short sighted failures. It is convenient. However, I don't think it's accurate.
Time will, as they say, tell.