How long until greedy MPAA sues Google for trillions?
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As someone above said, this is a money making exercise, anyone with half a clue knows full well that the main sites are still just a proxy away.
That said bit torrent has come to be used by the masses, so blocking the URL may put off the most casual surfers.
That said bit torrent has come to be used by the masses, so blocking the URL may put off the most casual surfers.
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.... and we all know what pirates are.
Nope, went a long time ago AFAIK.
Urm, just put the word proxy after the name of the site in a search engine and as if by magic...
Yep, the $110 million is nothing more than a random large number they're waving around so it catches the public eye more. It's an advertising strategy and not a real figure.
It's not a random number, you can't just walk into a court room and go "We are suing you for tree-fiddy squillion".
That figure will be based from what their legal team has assessed equates to lost sales over numerous factors which they have to present with sound reasoning to the judge.
The only reason they won't get $110 million when awarded in favour is because there isn't that amount of cash or assets in the business they are suing.
You might not like it, but that is the way it is.
The MPAA aren't stupid. They're greedy. It's not run by Harvard graduates so they can do silly things like attempt to actually wipe out piracy, the prime reason for anything is so they can make more money.
Of course they fully know their attempts at ending piracy are futile, that is not the aim here. The aim is simply to leech money. Ending piracy isn't magically going to pump money into the economy so people spend more on movies, that's just daft.
Who will they sue if piracy ended tomorrow? That's right, no one, therefore they don't actually want piracy to end. Of course they are also aware that for every 1 site they shut down, 3+ more crop up; if you think that's some secret underground knowledge the MPAA doesn't know about, you're very naive. They absolutely love the fact more are cropping up for every one shut down, otherwise they wouldn't shut them down in the first place - very simple cause & effect logic.
Also, should mention the mainstream headlines these lawsuit escapades generate. Last time I read a mainstream news story about a pirate site getting blocked/shut down I found several new torrent sites I'd never even heard about
Of course they fully know their attempts at ending piracy are futile, that is not the aim here. The aim is simply to leech money. Ending piracy isn't magically going to pump money into the economy so people spend more on movies, that's just daft.
Who will they sue if piracy ended tomorrow? That's right, no one, therefore they don't actually want piracy to end. Of course they are also aware that for every 1 site they shut down, 3+ more crop up; if you think that's some secret underground knowledge the MPAA doesn't know about, you're very naive. They absolutely love the fact more are cropping up for every one shut down, otherwise they wouldn't shut them down in the first place - very simple cause & effect logic.
Also, should mention the mainstream headlines these lawsuit escapades generate. Last time I read a mainstream news story about a pirate site getting blocked/shut down I found several new torrent sites I'd never even heard about
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Innit.
The MPAA aren't stupid. They're greedy. It's not run by Harvard graduates so they can do silly things like attempt to actually wipe out piracy, the prime reason for anything is so they can make more money.
Of course they fully know their attempts at ending piracy are futile, that is not the aim here. The aim is simply to leech money. Ending piracy isn't magically going to pump money into the economy so people spend more on movies, that's just daft.
Who will they sue if piracy ended tomorrow? That's right, no one, therefore they don't actually want piracy to end. Of course they are also aware that for every 1 site they shut down, 3+ more crop up; if you think that's some secret underground knowledge the MPAA doesn't know about, you're very naive. They absolutely love the fact more are cropping up for every one shut down, otherwise they wouldn't shut them down in the first place - very simple cause & effect logic.
Also, should mention the mainstream headlines these lawsuit escapades generate. Last time I read a mainstream news story about a pirate site getting blocked/shut down I found several new torrent sites I'd never even heard about
Its not completely futile though; yes you are right that there will always be another site in the place of a large one that gets shut down.... however, it sends out the message that if you run a website that hosts file sharing links of unlawful material, you never know when that knock on the door is going to come.
These high profile cases may well put off people thinking of setting one up or are currently running them.
Good point. NZBmatrix springs to mind, I don't think they actually got sued, they just suddenly closed the gates.
I pay a love film subscription but cannot stream
I have no guilt using torrents. No other convenient cheap way of watching in hd 5.1
Im not going to buy everything on blu ray I watch especially if it's giving it a try
I do fear also that the free Internet is slowly slowly dissipating
I have no guilt using torrents. No other convenient cheap way of watching in hd 5.1
Im not going to buy everything on blu ray I watch especially if it's giving it a try
I do fear also that the free Internet is slowly slowly dissipating
The sad thing is, if you were to say, download and watch once then delete 500 movies, and then went out and purchased them all on DVD, but never opened them, you would still get a longer jail sentence than a rapist and fined millions of pounds by an American company, most likely if even all of the DVD's were completely British.