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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
If it could be copied, it could be pirated. It was just never the threat it was today. Sharing with their mates is going to be 10 to 30. Sharing it on a file locker, how many do you think that is?
Also kids sharing it on CDs and phones, how is that tracked to give accurate figures?
Here's the site. Maybe Damo would like to point us to the part where Torrent Freak got the info from.
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I really have avoided getting involved in any of these threads, but the constant talk of file lockers is frustrating to me
Piracy has actually always been a problem, it's just more prominent and more people recognize it because of how much easier and cheaper it's gotten to store and transfer data, and because of how the internet and technology has changed.
There are so many different ways people pirate things. Who knows if these statistics are accurate or not, but when it comes to porn I think the combination of tubes, lack of security (which also applies to mainstream), and in some cases poor business practices are the real killer, and not file lockers.
People typically regurgitate things to file lockers, so its usually on at least a few of many other things first.
While I think taking down file lockers is a helpful cause, it is certainly not the end-all be all of things and blaming things mostly on file lockers is ridiculous.
Many webmasters and content providers should be checking themselves properly. The content and losses aren't coming through magic. File lockers aren't sneaking around stealing your stuff. Plus look at that link, 4% is file lockers.
A very big problem is prevention which directly leads to security and from all the threads I read I suspect many of you have quite a false sense of it.