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DamianJ · 11-08-2011, 03:05 AM

Look, I will open the kimono on this scam because you don't get it.

There is fuck all traffic on torrent sites. It's all moved to file lockers as you know.

However, torrents have this weakness because of public trackers. So people can get the IP address of people sharing the file.

They can also get the IP address of the person who uploaded it.

There is 1 of them, and 1000000 of downloaders.

They COULD have gone after the uploader if they wanted to try and help reduce piracy. But no, they went for the downloaders. Why? Because there were thousands of them and thus more bank to be made.

No one sues people on usenet, on file lockers, on private FTP, on IRC. Because they can't get teh IPs.

They can make money suing downloaders, so they do.

These cases are nothing to do with stopping piracy. Why would a lawyer want to do that? He'd cut off his income supply. Why would the content removal business want to succeed in stopping piracy? They would have no business left. This is all about making bank whilst preying on producers fears.

It's pretty clever.

11-08-2011, 03:05 AM
DamianJ Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: A magical land Posts: 15,808	Look, I will open the kimono on this scam because you don't get it. There is fuck all traffic on torrent sites. It's all moved to file lockers as you know. However, torrents have this weakness because of public trackers. So people can get the IP address of people sharing the file. They can also get the IP address of the person who uploaded it. There is 1 of them, and 1000000 of downloaders. They COULD have gone after the uploader if they wanted to try and help reduce piracy. But no, they went for the downloaders. Why? Because there were thousands of them and thus more bank to be made. No one sues people on usenet, on file lockers, on private FTP, on IRC. Because they can't get teh IPs. They can make money suing downloaders, so they do. These cases are nothing to do with stopping piracy. Why would a lawyer want to do that? He'd cut off his income supply. Why would the content removal business want to succeed in stopping piracy? They would have no business left. This is all about making bank whilst preying on producers fears. It's pretty clever.