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Originally Posted by kane
I guess if you have a company and you sue copyright violators, win and it is profitable that can help you replace some of the lost revenue from piracy, but it doesn't seem to be deterring other people from downloading the content illegally.
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Well so far yes, it hasn't affected much the overall piracy numbers, but the ball keeps rolling. And helping companies to make up for the lost income is the big deal of itself, because it may help alot of people to sit through the hard times until piracy problem is sorted out worldwide.
And btw it appears that those efforts did affect piracy numbers in the US. With all those downloaders lawsuits, and also court orders such as in hotfile case to reveal uploaders' identities, it seems that there are a lot less uploaders from the US now then it was 2 years ago. Of course they were easily replaced by uploaders from other countries, but sooner or later other countries will follow suit too.