straycat19 Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 The U.S. government has responded to the request to dismiss the criminal indictment against the alleged operator of KickassTorrents. According to United States Attorney Zachary Fardon, the defense is downplaying the significance of “torrent” sites, which are more akin to flea markets for infringing movies, TV shows, games, music, and software. Poster Comment: Isn't it nice that they keep going after torrent sites and haven't even begun to look at private (closed) ftp file sharing circles that have existed for 15 or more years without one piracy notice and don't have the problems of torrents like fake files. Read more: source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The U.S. government has responded to the request to dismiss the criminal indictment against the alleged operator of KickassTorrents. According to United States Attorney Zachary Fardon, the defense is downplaying the significance of “torrent” sites, which are more akin to flea markets for infringing movies, TV shows, games, music, and software. Poster Comment: Isn't it nice that they keep going after torrent sites and haven't even begun to look at private (closed) ftp file sharing circles that have existed for 15 or more years without one piracy notice and don't have the problems of torrents like fake files. Read more: source
Bausch Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 I think of the whole piracy thing in a different way. First of all, the term "pirate" is very loose. And irrelevant to the current paradigm. At least for torrent sites. Not to mention that in some cases content providers are literally preventing people from paying for their product. Like Netflix for instance. Even if you are trying to pay to watch their content, you are still a pirate if you are using a VPN to circumvent geolocation restrictions. Which is absurd. Now, in my opinion, there are three groups of consumers. The first, will not pay for it, regardless. Either find content/software for free, or not use it at all. Those will not be converted. And Anti-Piracy groups should simply give up about it. And then there are those who will get content for free to try it. If they like it, then they pay for it. In their case, torrent sites would generate revenue for content providers. Cutting them off will only hurt sales. The third group, who will only pay, are not affected by any of this in any case. What baffles me is that they are still wasting all those billions on ridiculous groups and cry wolf about their alleged losses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryrynz Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 All of this wouldn't be a problem if we just dropped this absurd and outdated economic system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 18 hours ago, Ryrynz said: All of this wouldn't be a problem if we just dropped this absurd and outdated economic system. That's the big picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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