Originally Posted by Loki

The bottom line is we will always have some sort of piracy to contend with, the general 'public' consenses about the internet is that it was created for "freely exchange information" and over the years the word "information" has morphed to music, movies, tv, books, apps, games, ringtones and of course porn.

In our TV shows and movies 'pirate' sites are mentioned, my own cable/internet provider use to broadcast a 30 min "ScreenSavers" custom episode enticing customers to switch to high-speed internet STATING...

"You can download full length movies in just about 30 mins from here, here and here"
"Download a full CD in as little as 10 mins from here, here and here"
"like the TV Show ___________? you can dowload an entire season in just few hours"

This had NOTHING TO DO with NetFlix (who did NOT offer streaming back then) or iTunes, or any other "LEGAL" methods, they were straight up talking AND NAMING places like Napster (pre-revamp) Kaza & Lime... wire or ware? I forget lol

Talk to kids & teens today and you see that to them downloading is a "Right"

But then lets turn the mirror back to our own industry.....

Did a good number of the very first paysites NOT start from people scanning (and selling on cd's) content from adult magazines that they had NO RIGHTS to use on their own?

Is there not COUNTLESS paysites in the toon market using pirated content? coughcoughhentaibosscoughcough coughcoughseriouspartnerscoughcough coughcoughadultempirecoughcough and even entire content studios who've been caught selling entire collections of 'stolen' toon content (don't remember names off the top of my head sorry)

Then we have the tube sites, ex-gf-sites, etc etc, seems to me we need to clean up our own backyard before we can really bitch or fight about the neighbors back yard.

Last but not least, want to fight piracy on your own sites? offer stuff that can not be pirated, offer something that can't be downloaded.

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-Loki-

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