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Want to know what it looks like after you've been pwn3d by the feds? Check out "Elite Torrents."
Andrew Zangrilli over at blogbook has a piece commenting on the fact that this shutdown was part of a bigger anti-torrent sweep carried out by the FBI and US Customs (!) Last October I wrote a brief note indicating that the Dept. of Homeland Security (which now controls Customs) has an "intellectual property rights center." I'm guessing this originated out of there.
CNN Money has a particularly slanted article on the raid, repeatedly using Cartel language and ominous phrases like "It's not known how much Internet piracy costs US companies every year" (hint: NONE. Do your damned background research, Ms. Crawford!).
""It's not known how much Internet piracy costs U.S. companies every year" (hint: NONE. Do your damned background research, Ms. Crawford!)"
Are you kidding Alan?!? Are you delirious enough to really believe that Internet piracy hasn't resulted in a single foregone sale? This kind of statement demonstrates just how far out of reality most Copyfighters are. File-sharing and piracy have destroyed billions of dollars in value. Just look to the decline in sales for proof. I think you refuse the facts because they support your position.
Declining sales of what? We had this argument last time a study was published (Geist's) and the bottom line is that the science that has been done shows no harm.
This is not to say that nobody downloads instead of buying (hyperbole, admittedly, so yes I'm sort of kidding) but rather that downloading does not reduce companies' overall revenue. If you have evidence to the contrary by all means publish it.
And all of this ignores revenue growth in other areas. How much growth in domestic broadband, mass storage devices, bandwidth, cd and dvd blank/recorder sales, and so forth is fueled by that which is purportedly "costing US companies billions"? And really, where would you rather the money went -- into producing the next cheesy animated Disney film or into growing the nation's information infrastructure?
1. Copyrighter on May 26, 2005 1:07 PM writes...
""It's not known how much Internet piracy costs U.S. companies every year" (hint: NONE. Do your damned background research, Ms. Crawford!)"
Are you kidding Alan?!? Are you delirious enough to really believe that Internet piracy hasn't resulted in a single foregone sale? This kind of statement demonstrates just how far out of reality most Copyfighters are. File-sharing and piracy have destroyed billions of dollars in value. Just look to the decline in sales for proof. I think you refuse the facts because they support your position.
Permalink to Comment2. Dr. wex on May 26, 2005 2:03 PM writes...
Declining sales of what? We had this argument last time a study was published (Geist's) and the bottom line is that the science that has been done shows no harm.
This is not to say that nobody downloads instead of buying (hyperbole, admittedly, so yes I'm sort of kidding) but rather that downloading does not reduce companies' overall revenue. If you have evidence to the contrary by all means publish it.
Permalink to Comment3. Neo on May 26, 2005 6:29 PM writes...
And all of this ignores revenue growth in other areas. How much growth in domestic broadband, mass storage devices, bandwidth, cd and dvd blank/recorder sales, and so forth is fueled by that which is purportedly "costing US companies billions"? And really, where would you rather the money went -- into producing the next cheesy animated Disney film or into growing the nation's information infrastructure?
Permalink to Comment4. Seth Finkelstein on May 28, 2005 3:23 AM writes...
I can't trackback, so see my post:
Operation D-Elite and "domain-hijacking" elitetorrents.org
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