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Originally Posted by gideongallery
if 10 million people lend their tape cassette to 3 people that the same as one person seeding a torrent to 30 million people
the difference is first is uncountable, the second can be counted
that what i am talking about when i say piracy going from invisible to visible
when i say piracy hasn't changed in quantity that what i am talking about
i would bet this type of piracy has dropped, i remember when i borrowed tapes from friends
i got the show i wanted, plus 3-4 shows i never asked for because they were bundled on the same vcr tape.
now i download only the show i actually want.
that's crap that basically saying that fair use doesn't have a right to the network effect
technologically we must always have an inferior solution for our fair use.
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one major difference between lending tapes and downloading is that you have to give the tape back when you are done watching it. i doubt you are old enough to remember what it was like. you couldn't even copy tape to tape as the majority had some kind of filter that would make the copied tape look like crap.
people were careful about who they would lend their tapes to as they would often come back damaged, there are no such worries when uploading. even using your example, sure it sounds decent but fact is anyone out there can download 100 movies tonight if they wanted to, no calling friends, finding who has the tape, getting the tape, etc. its all just instant, search, click, download. its not just the same.
i just can't see fair use in uploading to the internet unless the only people who have access to what you have uploaded are your actual friends who might benefit regardless from something you bought but instead you are giving every single person on earth with an internet connection the ability to possibly download what you have uploaded, which goes far beyond fair use.