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Originally Posted by DirtyDave
The way to stop torrents is to stop them from having sponsors. If they have copyright content then they are illegal. If they can block child porn then they can block copyright content so that is not an excuse. If a sponsor works with a site that has copyright content then both the sponser (including Google AdSense) and the site lose their merchant accounts (ability to process transactions).
If the sites can't make money then they can't pay for their bandwidth bills and they close down. Simple.
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That's a solution, but since people tend to care for themselves alot more than for the industry, there will always be sponsors using a "Keep your friends close, keep you enemies closer" policy and pay those guys. More money for both of them, no long clips of the sponsor on the tube because they depend on the payouts, both are happy.
I could imagine that many programs switch to (secured, non-downloadable) streaming only long term, people get used to it by using tubes anyway, no more video downloads. With the average bandwidth of internet connections constantly rising, streaming high quality video is no longer a problem.
Noone wants to be the first, since you could lose customers pretty much like with DRM, but give it another year or two.
I don't think you can solve the problem by trying to pull the tube owners or users to court any more. Look what happened in the music industry, once pandora's box is open too long, you won't get it closed any more.