 maartenaElmoPremium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
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| I remember.... Trading CD's among friends before this whole P2P hype came to be. I also remember installing private FTP servers on weird numbered ports and only letting 2 users on at the same time, and they would only be friends that I knew.
You won't be able to get software before or on the launch day that way, but within a month or 2 it will have spread the old fashioned way.
If they really are able to completely remove P2P from the picture, don't think for one moment that piracy would actually stop....
I actually RARELY use P2P or any pirated stuff anymore these days, but I don't believe piracy will ever be stopped. Especially since there is no way to govern the internet usage in other countries where P2P is more or less legal or at least not yet a hot topic.
And if all else fails, we'll just go back to copying CD's. I did not get over 2000 C-64 games back in the day by buying em all, and I did not get them by electronic communication either. It was all disk copies. Same in the DOS world by the way, I had hundreds of floppy discs.
No, as long as the media can be copied, piracy will not die.
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