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First of all, all that copyright law is well and good and enforcable if you're in the U.S. But we're on the WORLD WIDE WEB remember? Do you think your lawyer is going to go to Serbia or Russia and file a lawsuit? Good Luck.
Anyway by the time global internet law IS created and we're all living under the capitalist oppression of giant media conglomerates like AOL, we'll probably have colonized other planets. And then we'd have to start all over again because some fucker on Planet Starbucks has got his server setup and no one can shut him down.
Why would anyone buy a cd of Pics if they're free on the net? First of all you would have a complete set. You wouldn't have to wait days to download the contents of a 700 mb CD.
Do you know how long 700 megs is on a dsl line? Never mind 56k. The only people who actually subscribe to pay picture sites are on 56k and are tired of having their browsers fucked over by popups. Anyone with cable or dsl is looking to subscribe to an mpeg site with high download speeds.
Lensman could give away all his amateur pics and no one would post them all. If one of lensmans girls was really hot she might become the next internet "it" girl. Then there might be alot of duplicate sites. But people don't join amateur pages for the pics. they join because they think theres a chance they'll actually score with one of the amateurs.
People don't join pic sites anymore unless they have huge libraries of content. And there is no way these huge libraries do not infringe on any copyrights. It's not possible for a site featuring 10,000 mpegs and 200,000 pics to not infringe on copyrights. But who is going to pay for a membership and check it out?
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