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Originally Posted by alexul
I am not for pirated material, and making profit by selling others work should be punished. Closing a site, could be seen as a good decision at the moment, but also means that less of the producs are known by the people, so on the long run it could be not that good.
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Both good points. It is the people who sell unauthorised content that should be the targets of any action. People who buy from them are obviously prepared to pay (something) for their content, so they can be considered a lost sale.
People who download it for free, are either doing so to see if they like it, or they are people who would never pay for it (or anything else) anyway. The former might buy something else from you as a direct result of that download, the latter constitutes no loss at all so there is no point worrying about them. Even the latter might buy related merchandise, assuming any is available, so it's all win with nothing to lose.
Drive it back underground and at best you will send people back to the CDR sellers.