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Originally Posted by Nautilus
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.
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I happen to believe that the wave of the future will be that there will be legal changes made to the DMCA laws that make hiding behind it more difficult and I also think we will see a trend where companies will be going after the sites that provide access to the content as opposed to the downloaders themselves.
I wouldn't be shocked to eventually see laws in place that could allow a company to go after a torrent site and if they win they can just take control of the domain and shut the site down. Of course the site owner can just move it to a new domain, but for the site to be successful they would need to get the word out what that domain is and you could just seize that one as well. Eventually they would just get sick of all the running and not making any money and give it up.
I am all for suing those who violate a copyright, I just think there might be a more effective way of doing it, but like a lot of things we need to wait for the laws to catch up with the technology.