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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
ignition the people you speak off will still download 100s of gig per month, the most serial downloaders dont use the well known torrents and will still happily download, so what will change?
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Not hard to guess what people are doing when they are downloading a ton of data from ssl.giganews.com
ISPs can simply take a closer look into what people are doing when they are leeching these files, there are ways and means. People who are using heavily downloading massive amounts of content shaft both their ISP through messing up the average usage sums and those who provide content.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Lets not forget one thing, the #1 reason people dont buy media is a lack of availability. They either want content not available in their country yet or want old content the copyright holders dont want to make available.
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That may be true in some parts of the world but here it isn't, we have good content release dates relative to a lot of the rest of the world. When that was the major issue it wasn't such an issue, now that a new movie is released to the cinema and has hundreds of thousands of people too cheap to buy a ticket to go see it so they download it or an album is released and is downloaded wholesale that becomes an issue.
For those relatively few things that other countries get significantly before us, well, before TPB we got by waiting for their release, not wanting to wait isn't an excuse to download the thing.
Many people download, and the very occasional bit of dubious downloading from some people is cool, we are however now in a stage where too many people do it occasionally, and those who do it a lot are really doing it a
lot. Something's got to give, too many people think paying not very much per month for an internet connection entitles them to download content costing several times their monthly sub.