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Originally Posted by Pnk XXX
who cares
if they can bank off it, the more power to them.
they adapt, you adapt. pretty simple biz logic. if you dont have the muscle to squeeze them out of biz, you have to adapt.
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Dumbest reply on here... that's like saying you have to adapt to mafia tactics such as "protection." Illegal is illegal. I would never say adapting to thievery is the only and best option.
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Originally Posted by Eman - PG
This will never fly. Piratebay, the torrent tracker, doesn't host content and they argue that in their country providing the tracker and search is not copyright infringement.
Once they start hosting pirated content, even if they host with ISPs in Russia, if they dont respond to take down notices, carriers in countries where copyright infrigement is illegal will be forced to stop peering with those ISPs.
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Hosting is the key right now, but seriously people have to be smart enough to recognize that referring such as the way The Pirate Bay operates is eventually going to be defined as a criminal action. It's toooooooooo easy to pirate things right now and an intelligent person would be smart to think that legislators will get a clue and fix the broken part of a system that makes a TON of money. You have to protect your cash cows after all.
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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Of the THOUSANDS of anti-tube posts, how many times can you remember reading about a realistic solution put forth by someone?
::: crickets :::
The only thing I ever recall is a bunch of little boys crying in mama's tit.
So here is my solution proposal...
Content owners simply digitally sign all of their members area and affiliate promo content. Something like "? Acme Adult." The adult tube sites could then automatically check for the copyright and deny it before it even got posted. This could be done through either white listing or black listing.
As long as the surfer didn't fuck around with the video this would work. At the very least it would stop the average surfer from uploading to tube sites that checked for it, and that's probably enough to curtail a very high percentage of tube infringements.
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Digital signing would stop it??? you think most of these tube sites care that they are carrying copyrighted content? They exist because of it. Cut off their supply of pirated/stolen content and they shrivel up and die. DCMA, DRM, digital signing all do nothing. They have no fear of prosecution because of the cost involved in a copyright case. it will happen eventually and someone will get handed a HUGE award... but until then they could care less if you don't want your stuff on there and they need it to function.
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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
I know the meaning. I'm just saying it's a fantasy that ISP customers will be totally denied access to websites. They don't even cut off terrorist websites. You think they are going to unplug a porn infringement site? Wake the fuck up.
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I have never understood why the US doesn't just shut down access to certain countries web locales.. or more specifically, certain web-sites hosted in those nations. Yes, a little tit-for-tat would occur, but hey.. we are a nation of laws and you would expect that our laws should get enforced at our own borders. I am perfectly happy to have the same treatment for my site... If the Chinese or Indian government don't like my site based on their laws.. great.. deny access to it to your citizens. 80% of my billing occurs within the United States and European Union. Everything else is gravy that I wouldn't mind trading away to fight off lost business that occurs due to piracy.
Instead of waiting years and years and years for lawsuits and bullshit to flow... why shouldn't it make sense that someone such as SONY could file their DCMA with a US International Internet Regulation and Oversight Board.... 2-3 days after filing, this board clearly sees that the actions occuring on The Pirate Bay as being infringement inducing actions and notifies TPB that access to their site will be suspended to US customers until the action is either rectified or resolved.
US based locations would require court actions as both parties would be US based.
Doesn't really seem like rocket science to me.