[softball]

The content thieves, whether they by the little guy in London, or the big Pirate in Sweden are thieves. There is no argument. Theft in any industry is unsustainable. These initial lawsuits will have an impact the first time some crying 20 year old has to sell his car to pay a fine to a guy like Lightspeed. Next up, a bigger pirate will wind up in jail or his legs broken in Russia by a very pissed off content provider. This will settle down. Just like prohibition did.
There should be no discussion on the right or wrong of this. There is not two sides to this issue. There is our side and then there are the bad guys.
In this case, whether you like him or not, Steve Lightspeed is a good guy. In fact he is a very good guy.
His motivation may be money. But what is wrong with that? He makes money and he helps all honest business people by fucking up a few very nasty "non consumers". I have heard the argument that you shouldn't blame the consumer. Fuck it. They know damn well they are thieves.
Look at the mess Hollywood is in at the moment. Look at the crap quality of movies lately. (Box office off 17 per cent because of poor quality films) because genuine investors are afraid of winding up like "The Hurt Locker". So I say good fucking luck to Lightspeed and anyone else who can convince a lawyer to take on a multi million dollar case and fuck these assholes up.
Oh yeah, and I do believe that moving junk traffic from porn to gambling, dating etc. is on the wain. Way too many broken links. Way too many rehashed old movies. The only good thing about what is happening is porn traffic is devaluing for anything but...well....porn.
There is still a pot of gold at the end of this here rainbow as the lead drops from the pockets of the thieves.