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Originally Posted by DamianJ
You see, that's the problem with freedom of speech. There is always someone saying something you disagree with. So, the choice boils down to if you want freedom of speech or not. It's black and white.
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Freedom of speech and laws are not the same thing. You can't hide behind freedom of speech when it comes to child porn. Kim Dotcom can't hide behind it for being a pirate.
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Also, and more importantly, it's impossible to put rules and regulations on the internet because it is global and there is no global law. Even if there was, people will ALWAYS find a way round them, like TOR for example. Like the second level internet.
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Today there is not a way to deal with it. That I agree with. However, that could change as soon as tomorrow or never. Just a few years ago streaming video was impossible. TOR didn't exist.
All it takes is the right people to create the right laws and there is a global solution. One law could change to put the burden on domain registrars and that would be the end of that.
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I believe that the whole money/piracy thing is a red herring anyway. Piracy existed for free a very long time before file lockers came around. And it will continue to exist if file lockers credit card processessing is stopped. Usenet, IRC, private FTP, forums, torrents etc all exist for free.
I don't believe the problems the industry are facing are much to do with piracy. More to do with 1) A massive double dip recession that is fucking over EVERYONE 2) Years of treating our customers like cunts (circle jerks, card banging, hidden x sales, dialers, throttling bandwidth, content rotation, spamming, selling email addresses etc etc.)
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Piracy is just a small part of the problem. Economy, saturation, lack of credit, crappy sites and service... a perfect storm.
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We'll see though. If you all do manage to close all CC processessing for file lockers and then everyone sees a HUGE growth in sales, I will eat my hat and apologise. However, I have a feeling that won't happen.
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No one is going to see a huge growth in sales even if piracy ended today. You still have all the other factors to deal with plus everyone has been taught they no longer have to pay for anything. So you would need a new generation to come along plus all the financial issues resolved, before the stage could be set for a spike in sales to happen.
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It's nice to have something to blame for a greedy industry's short sighted failures. It is convenient. However, I don't think it's accurate.
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Like I said, it's only part of the problem and it's easy to point at because they are here. They are among us. The global bankers and government officials are not.
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History, and billions of dollars wasted by the RIAA and MPAA have proven there is no solution.
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No, that just means they didn't find the solution.
Billions are also wasted on rockets that don't fly. That doesn't mean man can't go to space, it just means some people can't build rockets.