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Re: No surprise, old site, meet the new (same) sites No, you're making the mistake of equating a technically possible solution with wide market penetration.
All that the owners are trying to do is to shut down and cripple the most popular, most visible, and easiest-to-use sites. This will stop 90% of the casual users from going the pirate route.
Just because it's technically possible to share pirated material doesn't mean that that techical solution has any significant usage or penetration.
All the owners really want to do is to raise the barrier of entry for the average user to become a pirate. | |
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join:2003-07-20
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kudos:12 | said by MyDogHsFleas:No, you're making the mistake of equating a technically possible solution with wide market penetration. All that the owners are trying to do is to shut down and cripple the most popular, most visible, and easiest-to-use sites. This will stop 90% of the casual users from going the pirate route. Just because it's technically possible to share pirated material doesn't mean that that techical solution has any significant usage or penetration. All the owners really want to do is to raise the barrier of entry for the average user to become a pirate. Bingo! Very well said. | | |
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A rational consumer will look at this as a tradeoff.
Pay $10 or $20 for a CD or DVD, or less than that to buy from iTunes....
vs. figure out where to go to start, download the app, start it, configure it, search for what you want, worry about whether it's really a virus, download it, and play it.
Now... iTunes and the like make the latter process dirt simple, reliable, well-known, and cheap. Whenever the owners see something springing up that approaches that level, they will react. They want the average consumer to say, "Screw it, this is too hard/dangerous, I'll just buy it." | |
 knightmbEverybody Lies
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Franklin, TN | reply to MyDogHsFleas
said by MyDogHsFleas:No, you're making the mistake of equating a technically possible solution with wide market penetration. All that the owners are trying to do is to shut down and cripple the most popular, most visible, and easiest-to-use sites. This will stop 90% of the casual users from going the pirate route. Just because it's technically possible to share pirated material doesn't mean that that techical solution has any significant usage or penetration. All the owners really want to do is to raise the barrier of entry for the average user to become a pirate. The piratebay was the easiest to use? All it had going for it was a search engine and torrent trackers, you still needed the right software to play movies, burn mp3 to CD, run programs (and hope a virus didn't lurk inside).
From an end user standpoint, it won't matter at all. I have friends that are half-way technical still don't know how to use the piratebay properly.
I think once people figured out that 'any torrent' = free stuff, the piratebay name became moot. Most of them just look in google, yahoo, bing, whatever now anyway because the pirate bay was too difficult for them to use.
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knightmbEverybody Lies
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Franklin, TN | reply to MyDogHsFleas
said by MyDogHsFleas:A rational consumer will look at this as a tradeoff. Pay $10 or $20 for a CD or DVD, or less than that to buy from iTunes.... vs. figure out where to go to start, download the app, start it, configure it, search for what you want, worry about whether it's really a virus, download it, and play it. Now... iTunes and the like make the latter process dirt simple, reliable, well-known, and cheap. Whenever the owners see something springing up that approaches that level, they will react. They want the average consumer to say, "Screw it, this is too hard/dangerous, I'll just buy it." No need to, with google, yahoo, etc. isn't much more difficult to find the torrent than it was on the pirate bay. Yeah, they took down a big target, but so what. If the piratebay was the only place in the world to find stuff, then yeah, store a big one for corporate. But really, the end user isn't as helpless as you make them out to be. They know that in the infinite wisdom of the Internet, it only takes a few clicks to find it elsewhere.
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