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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
Not that I am overly familiar with the "scene", but this seems to be mainly the case for people who are using this to turn a profit in the first place, uploading something to rapidshare or some other host which pays them for each download, then complain about "illegal" mirrors. As you say, delightfully ironic.
"]Crunchyroll[/URL].) They fail to see the irony, and they fail to realize one simple fact-- once something has been made available on the internet-- it is available on the internet.
That's still around? I thought binaries had killed it for good long ago.
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Usenet was where I saw DCP members in a flap about this a few days ago, saying they know who that guy is and that he is likely to hand over every IP address he knows of people involved in it. It's still around, but only from commercial organisations where you pay a monthly fee, the free ISP access went years ago.
Commercial use of unauthorised digital content has always been frowned on by people who create it. Rightly or wrongly, they don't like the idea of people making money from their creations. It's very common in the music video bootleg scene, and people caught doing it are expelled from all the forums.