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I asked Alexander some questions that were in the context of that post and my thinking was explained in my post to him and the following post wherein I quoted Becca Price. As I posted on page 2 in response to BWinmill, 'I'm keeping an open mind. It's very early days re this company and Mr Dotcom's activities have been heavily 'perused' for quite some time. One presumes that the New Zealand Government has not found fault with the use of the '.nz' or else the site wouldn't be able to use it; nor with other aspects of the new business under it's aegis.' |
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01-24-2013, 01:35 AM | #64 |
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I won't be using Dropbox anymore I don't think. This is just great. 50 Gigs! Now we're talking. As a file sharing tool this seems to me the way to go if the copywrite trolls gain any more power, but just as a Dropbox replacement it sounds fantastic.
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Reading some of these posts I'm startled that many people here seem to be of the opinion that file sharing (ie-pirating) is a bad thing. Myself, I'm in favor of it and have pirated many films, music and *gasp* books over the years. I've also spent A LOT of money on legal versions of same.
I haven't been on this forum in a while and I'm struck by this.. seems at odds with other places I visit. Maybe it's just me... |
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Gotcha. That was advocating. However, is one allowed to speak honestly about piracy? To give an opinion? Is it debated on this forum at all?
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You can certainly discuss it, as long as you don't advocate it. But (with no disrespect intended) I very much doubt that you can say anything about it that hasn't been said in a thousand previous threads. Nobody's mind is ever changed by such discussions, and they tend to result in heated exchanges.
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My two cents worth...
Piracy on the large scale, such as loading copyrighted material and making it available for the entire world to download, is not going to be helped by this service. However... Piracy on a small scale, however, will be greatly facilitated by this service. For example, John Q, Public decided to provide a copy of the famous monster movie Tweedledee The Wonder Mutt Vs. Tiddles The Wonder Cat to his sister Jill. John uploads his movie, and provide the download info to Jill. Jill downloads the file, and tells John she is done. John then deletes his file. The file has been passed on, on a small scale (1 person), and there would be extremely low risk to do it. Even if the download information was passed on, there is no longer anything to download. It is automating the sneakernet... |
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The answer, of course, is yes to all three. But john may just want the convenience of an upload/download. He may want the "limited visibility" of a transient upload/download. (He may not even have a DVD burner...or his sister may live halfway around the world, with less than perfect mail service...).
I'm pointing out that small scale piracy is what will be encouraged by this service, not large scale piracy. |
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A guy who's sister lives too far away from the civilized world to visit and to receive mail, but has a good enough internet connection to download a DVD, decides that it is more convenient to upload the DVD, sent the link and password to his sister, then delete the DVD, rather than just send a link to a pirate site to her. Also, the sister who lives far away from civilization has no problem with piracy (otherwise the present from her brother would offend her) but doesn't know how to find the film on a pirate site. |
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