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Originally Posted by DamianJ
The drugs would make more money if legalised through taxation. Currently there is no tax collected on illegal drugs. The additional revenue would come from saving the tax payer the billions being wasted on a war that has been lost. This is fairly basic obvious stuff. So no, legalising piracy would not increase porn revenues. I didn't suggest it would. The point, and I am sorry I am not making this clear enough, is that the government has spent BILLIONS on fighting drugs and they HAVE LOST. Similarly, the MPAA, RIAA etc have spent BILLIONS fighting piracy. And have lost. There comes a time when you have to realise you've lost.
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HAVE LOST? In what way, purely monetary? We are getting waaaaaay off topic here, but money isn't the be all and end all - let's legalise something that brings misery to fucking millions, so we can make a profit? If that's your view then I guess that's your view, but tell that to a bunch of parents who have seen kids destroyed or killed thanks to drugs "yeah sorry, we lost money, nowadays we want to make a profit, and make all drugs legal, so tough shit, but the good news is your taxes will go down. Maybe. Probably not actually."
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Originally Posted by DamianJ
Where did I say that? I said the PR generated through the fighting increased traffic to tpb because it did. More people because aware of it.
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So the fighting explicitly increased it's popularity, not the give-me-it-for-free culture, the huge rise in social networking, the amount of new internet users? Got a citation for that?