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DawnFalcon · 03-02-2010, 07:37 PM

Ah yes, the moralist stance. "Do not".

Of course, the public are not paying attention. Read the Microsoft darknet paper - it makes perfectly clear the consequences of trying to limit available media. Every time you try, and every time you lecture, you are simply driving darknet traffic higher.

Why not, well, stop doing that?

The only business model which has succeeded in taking traffic from the darknet is based on low price, no DRM and high availability. This is not coincidence.

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DawnFalcon Banned Posts: 2,094 Karma: 2682 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: N/A	Ah yes, the moralist stance. "Do not". Of course, the public are not paying attention. Read the Microsoft darknet paper - it makes perfectly clear the consequences of trying to limit available media. Every time you try, and every time you lecture, you are simply driving darknet traffic higher. Why not, well, stop doing that? The only business model which has succeeded in taking traffic from the darknet is based on low price, no DRM and high availability. This is not coincidence. Last edited by DawnFalcon; 03-02-2010 at 07:40 PM.