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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
If the analogy held, where's Demonoid now? Why isn't it still giving people stuff for free? Why couldn't it use its "magic" to fend off the authorities?
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Well, as someone else pointed out, there are many, many other torrent sites.
Napster was shut down years and years ago, a few years ago saw SuprNova close - but everyone has acknowledged that it's a game of whack-a-mole.
But obviously the analogy doesn't cover protection from the authorities. Just as it doesn't cover the duplication of physical objects. It's a limited genie. The analogy is meant to focus on one aspect of the problem - people's perception of copying content, as opposed to walking out of the store with it. No one thinks that getting a wish granted by a genie is "stealing", yet it deprives creators exactly as much as internet piracy.