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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
The underlying problem with piracy is, for some it's profitable at the cost of of others. Usually the producers and vendors of the product being pirated. The list of those profiting from piracy includes the domain owner, the advertisers, processing and hosting companies.
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Imagine you download a torrent:
1. Go to Pirate Bay.
2. Search for content.
3. Download (Leech).
Now who is serving that file to you? Multiple individuals that are unpaid. The Pirate Bay is a public tracker so there's no incentive to carry on sharing these files.
This is why piracy will never go away. People are willing to do it for free.
You can argue about the lockers, which are the most profitable wing of piracy at the moment. People upload content, post on forums, get paid commission when downloaders buy a premium account.
Forget the ads, forget LiveJasmin, AFF and the like. These people are directly profiting from you content. You'll never get a successful conviction against advertisers because they'll just claim they didn't know. But lockers have the files on their servers; it's much harder for them to deny it.