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Originally Posted by kane
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.
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why should the pirate bay be responsible for developing such a solution
if the copyright holders want such a solution they should pay for it first.
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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.
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you refuse to recognize the supreme court declaration that copyright is a monopoly.
You keep arguing it not even though the highest court in the land explictly declared it as such
you keep arguing that movie studios should have a right to choose film projectors over bit torrent even though the courts have ruled that choosing broadcast over betamax tapes
or cd over mp3 was not allowed.
if copyright holders like yourself are not going to budge one bit and actually choose to deliberately go backwards on what the court have ruled
then the definition of going legit is bending over and taking it up the ass.