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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
And if it's right for people to steal, or in your words can see how it happened, it's also right for the pirates to be tracked down and sued. When hundreds of them are getting letters in the post asking them to appear in court or pay a fine, which is funnelled back to sue more, then piracy will decrease.
When companies are sued for advertising on sites that promote theft they will stop advertising and the problem will diminish. Because the piracy industry is not just a bunch kids trying to get a free record, program or what ever. It's an industry making money. From Paypal, to Brazzers, to AFF. Try and steal off them and see how they would like it.
It will diminish because with out the companies behind them to pay for the sites the sites will diminish.
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I appreciate the fact that the downturn in the recording industry has touched a friend of yours. The downturn in the insurance industry touched me directly - I'm out of a job right now because of it.
But I would greatly appreciate it if you'd quit with the straw man here. As I already stated, I am vehemently anti-piracy. It does hurt the industries it touches, whether that be record companies, porn producers, software developers, or movie studios.
Being able to objectively analyze the situation and go "yeah, I get how this happened and why it came to this" is not the same as supporting the end result.
For fuck's sake, dude, I'm a musician. I've released records with several bands before I got out of the gigging thing, and it irritates the hell out of me that we barely recouped the cost of recording because some chucklehead handed out copies to his friends rather than encourage them to buy their own.
But it's been going on since the advent of cassette tapes. It's more prolific now, but it's nothing new. You adapt to the state of the marketplace, you survive, you don't, you die.