[citation][nom]stephen0983[/nom]the guy acts like he's doing a service by having isohunt. "i hope the judge will do the right thing" ... god people are so cheap they pirate everything[/citation]
Torrents are insanelyt useful.
I torrent 50GB a month, but I also send $1000+ a year to software developers.
If not for file sharing, do you think sites such as Newgrounds would have ever gotten anywhere? If anything, Newgrounds is probably responsible for a million in cash in Adobes pocket.
Also, not everyone is interested in newsgroups.
I don't care what this U.S. judge says, I'd flip him two fingers. Just ban all American IP addresses, so that the American side of the law can be ignored (and file sharing is legal in Canada), and redirect all American traffic to a free VPN service. VPN's are legal, good luck closing those.
And the options given are essentially: Censor or remove the site. Last I checked, Western culture disliked censorship, but I may be wrong.
Why is it that it's almost always Hollywood you see targeting these sites?
Last I check software was a hell of a lot more valuable than a movie. As in, thousands of dollars for 3D software, productivity software, even Adobe Flash is insanely expensive.
Win7 alpha and beta were pirated to absolute hell and back, but did you hear Microsoft complaining about loss of sales? Microsoft and Hollywood both make billions, both are pirated to hell and back, only Hollywood complains. People love M$, hate Hollywood. Anyone wonder why?
[citation][nom]lljones[/nom]daship 04/02/2010 3:55 AM Andrew Cuomo (NYAG) shut down 80 newsgroups his office identified as current posting places of sexual abuse images.They can do it. The public backed this move. It will just take a little longer for the entertainment industry to grease enough wheels and mount a massive ad campaign. Then we will be reading how some AG somewhere has forced such and such to shut down newsgroups hosting copyrighted material. There are only two places in the world that can host torrent/newsgroups and not have to worry about prosecution, China and N Korea. All pirate sites are on borrowed time.[/citation]
WHhen this Nigerian prince gives me the $250,000,000 he's promised as soon as I send all my banking credentials, I'll be able to buy a really really small island, claim it as 'The Republic of Awesome', get a hook in some global communication lines and declare file sharing legal, if not mandatory!
Or someone just buyout Sealand already (or convince Bates to let them on, since in 2000, someone else tried making Sealand a government untouchable data source).
Or like 20 people claim independence on some really small part of any country that a international communication cable resides in. (Why don't we just let the Amish and the such have their own small country already? They certainly don't care about our politics or laws)
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