Gideon, all your "smart" talk and mind misses a point to complete the picture:
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Originally Posted by holograph
Gideons approach/suggestion to deal with piracy is to go after leeches with no fair use right. This isn't a bad approach and may work for huge mega corporations
What about little guys? small production shops, who are pushing only 1-2mil in revenues? let say there is a stock photo company, let say they release 10-20 CD/DVDs a year, and have generous 50% gross profit. One day someone decides to utilize redundant backup of modern public torrent trackers to store these DVDs. what happens next? almost instantly their content freely available on all pirate resources with 100 thousands of downloads globally. How this small shop can monitor all such resources and go after all leeches without fair use right? - Gideon suggests for this company to use most of their profits to legally pursue criminal offenders. I say it's impossible. Content should be protected and freely accessible illegitimate downloads should be prevented. There is no point for a small shop invest their resources in product and then they have to spend all their profits to go after leeches. next thing Gideon will say to this small company "fuck you, my vcr rights should allow anybody steal anything they want"
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if seems you are suggesting allow everyone chance to steal and then go after them. small companies do not have resources to monitor all trackers and pursue globally all leechers with no fair use.
I understand how fair use rights work, i'm not going to comment or argue on your points above because you think internet is your vcr, which is not. you are totally dismissing issue at hand which is freely available content encourages piracy - if you are so protective of your vcr rights at least be so courageous and take a stand against piracy too because it is hurting those who create and provide content for you. you can't 100% advocate fair use through freely available to anyone means and totally dismiss fact that it is going to be stolen just as well. where is the solution? going after leechers without fair use isn't a solution for small guys.