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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Considering that they were the source for an article you quoted in post #18 of this very thread, you might want to reconsider that criticism.  |
The difference is that quote was about increased profits. I can't really see any reason they would have to lie about increased profits, whereas I can see lots of reasons why they would lie about the reasons for slower than wanted growth.
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Which "high profile piracy sites" are you talking about? The only real shutdown last year was Limewire, and apparently users largely shifted over to Bittorrent. The Pirate Bay, despite losing a heavily publicized court case, is still operating in most countries.
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Oink, Mininova, all the cases against Rapidshare and Megaupload. Others (like TPB) have been taken down temporarily but reappeared a few weeks later. For blogs, you can find them all here if you search for riaa
http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
And, as you apparently missed, there was a correlation between high profile enforcement and an increase in digital sales (e.g. IPRED in Sweden). Not the other way around.
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http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-inte...-scare-091113/
http://torrentfreak.com/many-swedes-...cy-law-091001/
http://torrentfreak.com/illicit-file...reases-100217/