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Originally Posted by kane
I disagree. If I go to the store and buy a DVD and pay cash for it, I haven't given them any of my private information. Yes, I would be giving my information (or some form of it) to the company providing the service, but I don't see how that would violate privacy rights of the customer. If I go buy a gun I have to go through a background check, but the gun store didn't make the gun they are just distributing it.
By making me join a site that site is likely getting more of my personal information than any retail outlet would have especially if I paid in cash.
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please people register software all the time
cd could have a login code printed on the back.
tv stations could print a login id on bill (rogersondemand.com)
store have loyalty programs which track your purchases and give you rewards
for an overwhelming majoirity of transactions this problem will not be an issue.
even your worst case senerio (above) is way better then spreading out that personal information to every single torrent site so they have the ability to "verify the buyers"
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Here's the thing. Say one day all the major movie studios decided to get together and offer all of their customers free access to their content for means of backing up content they have already purchased. Do you think for a second they are going to do this without forcing the customers to prove they have purchased it in the past?
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as long as they make it easy enough that people don't care
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cover 100% of the cost of the verification
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If they did this then systematically went after the torrent sites to have them remove all links to their content would you be fine with that. The studios are now providing you with exactly what you want so those people who are just backing up their content can get access to anything they would need which means the only people left using pirate sites would be people illegally downloading it.
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sure i don't care who get the ad views if it my fair use right is provided for free.