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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by zanny on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:54PM (#19994740)
This is in some ways good for piracy. During the 2000s the MAFIAA was heavily invested in their war on sharing sites and protocols because of how popular they were, but now with streaming taking a substantial chunk of that casual pirate audience theres less profit incentive in pushing a lot of prosecution.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by pbhjpbhj on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:49PM (#19995276)
It seems like the courts eventually came around to a more just way of thinking too, for example, they stopped treating the partial uploading of a single song as if the person had stolen the entire value of that song from the publishers.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by duxup on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:56PM (#19994759)
Agreed. Piracy seems to have filtered into being an enthusiast thing ... or at least that perception has held off the more rabid prosecution of it, mostly.
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