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Originally Posted by gideongallery
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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If every major film studio came to The Pirate Bay and offered this system to them to verify that their downloaders own the content they are downloading so they can be sure all downloads are legal and they paid to have the technology developed AND they paid for any cost to operating this system AND they covered any cost that the site would have in regards to running this system the site would still turn them down flat. We both know it. If they were forced to only supply their services to legit customers they wouldn't make nearly the amount of money they make now.
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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.
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Relax, take your meds then once they have kicked in go back and read what I wrote again. Nowhere do I mention any of this. I simply stated that sites like The Pirate Bay will never work with studios to provide a legitimate service to customers because it is far more profitable to offer it to those who want it illegally.
If the studios themselves offered this service I mentioned so their customers could get backups of their content how much traffic do you think it would take away from a site like the Pirate Bay? Would it be as much as 1%? I doubt it. Why? Because most of the people (other than those downloading TV shows) are taking stuff they have never paid for and don't have the right to own. You insist on allowing an illegal enterprise to operate in the name of a tiny number of legit customers who are just backing up their content.
In theory if the studios provided free backups to those who can prove they own the content and free download of TV shows for those that can prove they paid for it/have access to it then realistically there would be no need for a site like The Pirate Bay to exist because all customers would have that service now available to them from the studios. Yet we both know The Pirate Bay and sites like it would continue to thrive and you would continue to support them.