Originally Posted by crucifissio

hundreds no problem...thousands? also no problem...turning them off is no problem at all...

Look I'm new to porn but as far as piracy goes I really really know what I'm talking about I used to have 6 shops and 18 workers till they outlawed it in my country back in '99. Razor1911/DOD/SKiDROW back in the Amiga and early PC days were all suppliers of mine sending me DAT tapes with "content" literally every 2-3 days by post.

We had "affiliates" that used to sell our amiga floppy disks/ later PC CDs on every corner. 200 sales/day easy. Competition was through the roof! Every kid and his gold fish sold pirated stuff and it sold like hot cakes!

Complete pirate heaven.

So what happened?


One law and one police "operation" later we were left with no affiliates and no shops to sell from because they got closed. Then a few months later "operation bucanner" happened it took out all my suppliers. I had tons of cash but could not reorganize. The real problem was the customers I had built over the years and the relationship with my suppliers. It was a golden triangle supplier-seller-buyers and we did not "find" each other again. It was never the same. It had a detrimental negative effect on everything. I could not make enough money to pay my workers, previously I could cover their salaries with maybe 1-2 days of good work. No money for new titles, even though I found new suppliers the quality of product never returned to what it used to be nor did the number of new titles/month come back to what it was.

All in all, in synergy, all these things lead to me closing all shops in a matter of a few months.

Today you can STILL get pirated DVDs maybe in 2-3 places in some dark alley in my city. But I consider the efforts of the police a total victory being that most sales now are made in shops that sell original content.

I respectfully disagree with anybody who says that piracy can not be stopped. I have seen it reduced to a joke. I have seen my mickey mouse government take care of it like it was nothing. People were used to getting stuff for free but this meant NOTHING. They got used to buying stuff.

Same story now with the net. It's just a question of action.