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Originally Posted by notabook
No, it doesn't work. Well if you consider annoying someone only slightly and it takes them 30 more seconds to find a working file, then in which case I guess you could consider it to "work". We're not dealing with dial-up connections anymore. You are in the age of broadband. You are in the age of someone being able to download a 700MB movie in under 30 minutes. It takes seconds to download a 3MB MP3, then add a comment that it's fake so that others can avoid it.
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im a pretty savvy fellow and i have noticed that shills for software companies and music industry do exactly that . they go to these torrent sites and say "fake" when the files are real so they use the opposite of what your saying to flag good files as bad..
I know from personal experience i went to find a cd that i own , that i wanted to listen to on my mp3 player, fuck if every song i could find was a fake file.. i wasted a half hour then went and found my cd and ripped it myself..
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Originally Posted by notabook
Even so, in the age of broadband this is nothing more than a slight annoyance factor. The amount of time and money needed to start up this service to "combat piracy" wouldn't pay off. It just wouldn't dissuade enough people to warrant the creation. I mean seriously... I don't have cable (I have crappy DSL) but one of my friends has the cheapest package from them. He can download something at like 700kbps.... he can download an entire DVD-rip (4.37GB) in 3 to 4 hours. That's crazy!
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its more than a slight annoyance. most isp's have caps on downloads. infact in my area the fastest residential package would only allow you to download 20 full dvd's per month.. if 10 of them are fakes , you just fucked yourself
Its not THE solution its part of a multi-pronged approach. make it harder to get the files, then start some lawsuits against downloaders individually.
did you know the recording industry made MILLIONS last year suing college kids , thats just from the ones that SETTLED out of court ( i.e. dad and mom footed the bill to avoid a court case ) imagine if the lawsuit wasnt "britney spears mp3" but "ass raped blondes" heh , i think alot more people would settle out of court