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Originally Posted by slapass
It is fine as they are exploiting the law to their benefit. But overall we have seen that turning thousands of paying customers into freeloaders is not good for the long term health of the industry. It is a leaner porn industry with less overall revenue.
There was a point where if all the dmca notices were ignored that porn production might have become unprofitable and that would have made the model unsustainable.
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It's also fine if you're selling traffic and don't have to buy the content the surfers came to see.
I'm understanding why so many oppose SOPA or any law to shut down piracy. This type of law will greatly reduce the amount of sites with nothing but a forum linking to the big file locking joints, it will hit the little guys earning a living from uploading to these guys, cut off the head and the body dies. Which isn't good if what's paying for the forum is the ads being sold off it.
Target the MU's filesonic's, etc and the effect is enormous. Every time you knock one out another will take their place. But advertisers, affiliates, traffic guys will lose money. Get a law that make the supporters liable, then you cut the head off many in one swoop. Piracy will still exist, what it won't be is an industry that feeds off others to the level it does today.