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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Bottom line is still this: livejasmin funds piracy sites. Even if you justify it as "if they won't do it other will" that statement is still 100% accurate.
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I can't disagree wtih that. My point is that one also has to be practical in the approach. You can't tell one site "stop what you are doing" where when they comply, it then gives competitors a major advantage over them. It only works when everyone stops at once and no one has an advantage. I dont see how that will happen either as the obvious end game would be to set up their own traffic network so that people can buy ads directly through the site itself. Calling everyone who displays an ad on a particular site (usually unknowingly) a scumbag and theif is hardly a productive solution. No one cares. If exoclick has good traffic, i'll buy it no matter where it comes from (note, there are what seems to be 100s of domains related piratebay and their distributed network selling traffic/displaying ads). Same with any ad network. Just as anyone else will buy those ads, but that lies about it in public.
The problem is piracy sites.
The piracy sites.
Not how they monetize traffic.
The traffic will always be monetized.
I could sit down and come up with 400 ways to monetize a sites traffic in a matter of minutes. Furthermore, there are endless ways to monetize torrent traffic itself which will fly under the radar anyway. Playing whack-a-mole with advertisers is anyway and an obvious waste of time and resources. It is the site itself, which is the problem. And when the site itself is shut down, the problem goes away.
The only real solution is to go after the sites. If the sites are "illegal" as claimed, then it shouldn't be an issue to shut them down.