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Originally Posted by Robbie
I had "freedom" BEFORE user upload loopholes in the DMCA laws sent piracy into overdrive. And I was making millions with PORN on the internet without that particular "Freedom" way before YouTube or FaceBook or even Google existed.
People using that as an excuse to be against an anti-piracy bill are just not thinking clearly.
I don't like or trust the govt. one bit. But one thing is for sure...they already can yank down porn anytime they want to. That's been known for a long time. For whatever reason, they let us live here on the internet. And if they wanted to shut us down they could do it pretty easy...especially free sites. But pay sites could be taken down real quick with a little bit of govt. pressure on Visa and Mastercard.
We absolutely need a law to change what is going on with piracy. All of us (at least those of us who have been doing online porn since the mid 1990's) lived just FINE without user upload "freedom" to steal. And we'll do even better once it's illegal to steal copyright content again.
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It's already illegal to steal copyright content.
You are getting too old to think straight. Piracy is at its current levels because of technology, not legislation. Compression algos and codecs making files smaller on one hand while broadband makes connections faster.
In the 90's people bought DVD's because it would have taken years to download them with their 33.6 modems. They didn't even have Divx codecs to compress the mpegs back then.
People didn't rip your websites because it would have taken months and they needed to use the phone occasionally.
The cat is not going back in the bag, old man.