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Originally Posted by darryl
In some situations this so-called "shadow competition" from piracy pushes the price closer to the economic optimum, a price point at which everyone benefits. One example used is the price of an HBO subscription, including of course access to Game of Thrones. It is said that HBO is not going to extremes to prevent piracy of what is probably the most pirated show in history, implying of course that HBO recognises, at least by its actions or lack thereof, that such piracy may in fact not be doing them harm.
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Why do I keep getting cease and desist orders forwarded from several customers? While BitTorrent does not work from their sites, the connection to the servers is made and that appears to be enough to get the lawyers into the act -- you gotta look like you are doing something to get those retainers.
Students--you can't live with them and you're not allowed to put them to bed with a shovel.