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gideon, your points are all great and fine... but the problem with torrent sites is that they are not used as VCRs, and you yourself know this very well.. They might be used as VCRs by SOME of it's users, but its obvious that its not the case for most of them!
I think that is the big problem we are facing, that we need to try to find a way to make the illegal use impossible or very hard while the legal use of the technology remains.
But you yourself know that if someone downloads a torrent of a screener, this is CLEARLY not VCR-like use. The content could not have been recorded by the previous owner anyway..
The online VCR companies btw that exist, do it where if you do not tell them to record something BEFORE it starts, you can not download it or at least you can not unlock it... That makes it OBVIOUSLY VCR-like and thus fully legal...
I just think torrents are very different... and clearly are so in many many cases. How do we stop those uses of torrents?
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