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Old 11-02-2008, 03:01 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by EscortBiz View Post
Piracy is bad and costly, it costs people their jobs and destroys companies at the min. hurts them from expanding as they deserve, between stolen music movies software and fake handbags (yeah I know) its a planet of billions being stolen every year like its legal.

There is no positives to the companies that are getting robbed.

Online registration became a must with XP I think
Great post.

There are ways to stop it but it needs figuring out and takes the will to stop it online. Maybe things like banning advertising on sites promoting illegal sharing or even just banning the sites all together. Maybe even amending the TOS on the domain registration would help. If you promote theft of goods or violation of copyright you might lose your Domain. Let's see Torrentspy get around that one.

And yes it would need something this draconian to be effective. Add $48 billion to the money lost in music, porn and films and you can see why it needs to be draconian. Will anyone have the balls to do it?
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