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Originally Posted by GatorB
I never said you said anything. I am the one telling you that the overwhelming majority of torrent users of cheap as theives. FACT.
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stats please , i have presented the studies that come to those numbers,
i even quoted from mpaa studies
where do you get your stats that prove that more than 50% of people using torrents are theives.
I ask because your claim is the exact opposite of mine
and while i have backed mine up you still have not backed your up.
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How did this 99.5% buy a right to these shows?
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US census 99.5% of the households owns at least 1, 97% own at least 2 tvs.
the number is actually higher, because only 60% of the population has internet
since to use torrents you need to have internet
and poor people in the projects who cant afford a tv would not have internet (100% would fall in the .5% who have not tv, and 40% who have no internet)
and amish who avoid all technology would also have neither.
Assuming that distribution is equal across the internet/non internet community is flawed assumption based on these facts, but since the census does not give the composite stat (percentage of the population who has both vs only internet). It is a statistically valid assumption (all be it overly conservative).
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Some countries you can fuck a goat. Who cares. We are talking US law.
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well i am canadian so
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yes yes everyone is downoading 500 GB each of linux distros every month.
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never said that, they why i defined it as +y (it could be .00001% ) it doesn't matter because 50% is tv shows.
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I think they key word applying to you is PIRATE
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but the tax meets all the conditions of a licience (offer acceptance and consideration)
when it is licienced it not a copyright infringement
hense it is not piracy.
the piracy tax turns what would normally be piracy into a legally licienced activity.
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Once again you are a thief. If you want to see a show there are plenty of LEGITIMATE places to view it. Anyone running torrents 24/7 is up to no good. Then we wonder why ISP want to institute caps. Good luck continuing this when your ISP has a 40 GB monthly cap.
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if i called you a theif because you didn't pay me for your existing hosting. (pay your hosting bill, and then pay me a second time) would that be legitimate.
I paid for the content, i have a right to timeshift it,
if tivo is legitimate when it doesn't count the commercial (pay for the show) because you had to pay for the cable bill to get access to the show (paid for the content). Then doing the exact same thing (shifting the viewing time) using torrents is just as legitimate.
Unless you want to argue that tivos and pvr should be made illegal because you can buy the shows from amazon, or watch them from stations site.
The problem with that statement is that betamax case clearly stated the copyright holder did not have a right to make such a demand.
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this case legitimized using a cloud to timeshift
we are hairs breath way from explict legitimization of swarm (which is really just a cloud) as a timeshifting device.