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Originally Posted by High Plains Drifter
Convience, quality, and cost. If you can't compete in one area, you better compete in the others.
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The torrent sites have cost down to T - NOTHING. Nobody in a commercial business can directly compete with free.
Convenience? With Google giving the torrent sites good listings and companies like AFF paying them well for dating site referals, these torrent sites are getting more and more convenient.
Quality? It is potentially their only downfall, because you may have to wait a long time for a download that turns out to be nothing more than crap short clips or a corrupted file. But over time, more and more full site rips and full DVD iso are coming out and that pretty much gives them everything they need.
It is my opinion that if you remove the economic benefits, many people who are currently running Torrent sites won't do it anymore. If pressure is put by the copyright holders onto Google to stop listing torrent sites that are packed with copyright violations, thus removing these sites from the public eye... that will help.
It starts in our back yard. The copyright holders need to start serving the sponsors with DMCA notices and start putting the pressure on Google to make a difference.
Lars and AFF should be ashamed of themselves from stealing from their friends, but I suspect the large stack of cash in front of them makes it very hard for them to look anyone in the eye.