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Originally Posted by stonetools
AYou don't know who David Lowery is? Then let Wikipedia enlighten you:
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I could probably have found his Wiki page myself, but that would have required an interest in doing so, which I didn't have. And still don't.
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Frankly he sounds a hell of lot more credible than someone on the Internet who uses torrents
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Well, first of all I don't need to
sound credible, because what I claim to be the case can be checked by anyone and everyone in a jiffy if they have a mind to do so. Secondly you appear to be of the mindset that anyone who uses torrents is a thief and a robber (at least) by default, so your opinion on credibility is hardly a useful yardstick.
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him being an actual musician, businessman, lecturer and independent music producer - you know, one of the guys who the torrenters rip off .
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None of which has the slightest bearing on whether or not he knows the first thing about the torrent landscape (for want of a better term). Having a quick look at a few of the best known sites and snapping a few screencaps is somewhat less than impressive and in any case says nothing about anything I addressed. To refresh your memory, since you're obviously building a straw man, my only contentions were that a) anything and everything can be found on torrent sites, not only the big hitters like you stated, and b) a lot of sites are not funded by advertising, but are instead funded entirely by donations from users/members, who are often people with particular interests.
There are, for instance, torrent sites dealing exclusively (or semi-exclusively) in old out-of-print books and manuscripts, British TV, knitting patterns, musical scores, self-help books, pre-1940s movies, automobile repair manuals and vintage porn just to list a few examples. Neither of those are likely to be able to stay afloat on the basis of ad clicks (except the vintage porn one maybe).