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Originally Posted by spellbanisher
What's better than free?
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Convenience and quality.
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Originally Posted by spellbanisher
I don't really have much of a point actually. I'm just wondering about how much government policing and control over the internet people will put up with to ensure there is no piracy. Sometimes copyright defenders can be overzealous, but I also think its clear that many sites that free-culture advocates defend (thepiratebay, megaupload) are dedicated to pirating and probably should be shut down.
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The best you could hope for would be to push it back underground like it was before Napster got lots of free publicity from the music industry. All the file collectors are probably already there anyway, so it would only affect the readers/samplers. Since those are the type of people who spend a lot of money on legitimate digital content, I think that would be a big mistake.
But I do think it would be really funny to see entertainment industry profits take a dive when all the easy to find download sites are removed.