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Originally Posted by DJ The Kid
Going after individual end-users is largely ineffective. End-users are not so worried about this, so education (scaring other people into not downloading copyrighted media, by making examples out of others) through litigation is not effective. We've seen that with the RIAA and MPAA. Also, it ends up costing more in legal fees, etc than is recovered (monetarily or "educationally").
The way to go is bottleneck it and cut it at the source... the publishers that are stealing it and distributing it.
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What I can tell you from being an attorney that is involved with the mass litigation bit torrent cases, the ISP are hating every minute of this.
What the RIAA and MPAA did was nothing compared to what the adult industry is doing. ISPs are the source. They know people are using their connections to download tons of shit for free. And now they are being forced to respond to over a 100,000 subpoena requests.
It is costing them time and money to deal with this. When it becomes too burdensome - they may actually restrict all the free downloading going on.
Further, one of us is eventually going to join an ISP to these lawsuits as a contributory copyright infringer, then see what happens. Theres no question they now have knowledge of mass infringement and if a court is willing to keep them involved and not dismiss them on a Rule 12(b)(6) motion, the shit is going to hit the fan.