Probably shouldn't bother but...........
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Originally Posted by anappo
I have not -ever- heard of one single complaint about availability or usability of torrent clients. Have you?
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Yes I have, many times. Believe it or not there are many many many many people, even in developed countries, that are not technologically savvy and find it difficult learning how to use computers, new programs etc. More specifically, I have heard numerous complaints about previous versions of uTorrent, Azureus and other torrent clients. Personally, I first used torrents via the Opera web browser when it added a torrent client only a couple of years ago and I've been using computers my whole life. My browsing speed went to shit, I found it very difficult to use and overall was left wondering why people thought "torrenting" was just so amazing. Had I not had a friend who knew more about it than me I would have given the whole thing away thinking it was a waste of time.
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Originally Posted by anappo
Almost right. The attitude thats gaining (with a good reason too) is this:
"everyone should have unlimited access to all digital media".
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Incorrect, in my opinion. The attitude that is gaining acceptence is what I stated. That is, "everyone should have
free and unlimited access to all digital media because
digial media has zero value."
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Originally Posted by anappo
Do you disagree that this would be colossally good thing to have?
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Totally agree it would be fantastic.
So would being able to fly anywhere in the world free of charge. So would being given 1 million dollars. So would be marrying a super model who wanted to have sex with me all day and give me lots of money to spend on whatever I want.
There are lots of things that would be totally awesome. Personally I don't that it being "colossally good" for me personally automatically means that it should happen.
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Originally Posted by anappo
The "free" part is inessential. Right now its not even a noticable problem. In future? Maybe. This education you talk about could work. Or a "copyright tax" or subscriptions. For now you can't even test whether any of the fixes would work because the problem they are supposed to fix are not here yet.
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Actually the problem is here, it's just that in your opinion the problem isn't of big enough proportions to worry about. Personally I would tend to agree but that doesn't mean there isn't a problem
at all.
Cheers,
PKFFW