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Old 04-14-2011, 05:21 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by kane View Post
So your argument is that if all torrent sites were legal. If anyone could just take whatever they wanted whenever they wanted it then the movie industry would be forced to figure out ways to monetize those markets and they would be better off for it?
did i ever say that every use of a vcr including daisy chaining them together to make pirated copies of movies was legal

no

if the underlying fair use was extended to it maximum all torrent sites would not be legal (just a majority)

and yes if fair use was respected, the movie industry would be better off, from personal experience each lost revenue stream is replaced with a bigger one.
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