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Originally Posted by gideongallery
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"
as long as they make it easy enough that people don't care
or
cover 100% of the cost of the verification
sure i don't care who get the ad views if it my fair use right is provided for free.
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I would imagine that if a site like The Pirate Bay went to the major movie studios and proposed a system like you describe that would allow people to verify that they have purchased the content so they were eligible for free backup downloads and thus prove that every download on the site is legit the studios would jump at that, offer to pay the cost and endorse it.
The reason it will never happen is because beyond TV shows I think almost all of the downloading that goes on in these sites is illegal and the site owners know it and if they were to go legit their traffic would drop to nothing. It is much more profitable for them to service the millions who download illegally while hiding behind the idea that a few are downloading legally and their rights shouldn't be trampled than it is to run a legitimate legal site and only service those with the right to actually download the content. Money talks and there is too much money in pirating for these guys to actually go legit. If the money would be the same they would have gone legit a long time ago instead of either fighting long, expensive legal battles or living in fear of being crushed at any time.