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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
However is it ok to massage figures to get dodgy laws passed, eg. claiming every download is a lost sale, meaning someone on the dole who has downloaded £1000 woth of content in a week would have obviously otherwise brought that £1000 of content out of their dole?
Its not ok to download something that you have no legal right to. However its also not ok to blatantly lie to get laws passed and even in some cases put own content on torrents for the purpose of them claiming for damages of the people downloading it. Having a business plan to basically profit of copyright infringement.
I also think its wrong to enforce copyright on something that has no commercial value anymore or at the very least isnt been actively sold.
So its wrong both sides of the fence.
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A voice of reason.
My feelings are that the media companies have wasted a large amount of money on a failed course of action. They wanted the TPB blocked and all they did was have it blocked for a couple of hours before the block was bypassed. What they have done is raise the awareness of TPB and that its easy to get stuff from that site.
They would have been far better spending the money on more ways to set up legally downloadable content.