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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Do you honestly believe, in your heart of hearts, that getting rid of file lockers, processors for them, and alike will actually put the online porn industry genie back into the bottle?
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No more than I believe stopping a single burglar in my house will stop all home burglaries.
That said, I'm not going to just sit on the sofa and allow a burglar have off with my phone, TV, jewelry, or any other item he wants to remove from my possession. In fact, if I caught someone in my house stealing my DVDs, I would shoot him where he stood without a second thought. Online theft doesn't give me that luxury, so we fight them however we can fight them.
Fighting pirates for me has nothing to do with "putting the genie back in the bottle," and everything to do with putting an end to them stealing my property, or at the very least, reducing what is stolen. And just like you can't possibly stop every single person who may want to or actually break into your home, you can stop some of them and you can make improvements to your house to make it more difficult to break into. However, to do nothing is as ignorant as leaving your garage door open and the keys in your car while you go to sleep every night.
I wish everyone who thinks people who fight piracy are just dreaming the glory days of porn to return would stop thinking that, because that is not the case. Yet that is the #1 thing that people like to say, because haters gotta hate and many of them are pirates and shit stains themselves who are stealing from others in the industry. How about the simply concept of... they stole my property so I'm going to do something about it. Yes, I know that is a huge concept for simple minded freeloaders, but that's the way it is.