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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by la_barba on Thursday May 23, 2019 @04:44PM (#19995703)
The act of pirating the movie itself signals that there is some notional value to the downloaded content. Otherwise, you would just pipe 1GB of bits from /dev/random in to a file and play that.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by clarry on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:21PM (#19996094)
And yet the pirate chose to pirate, so it did not have enough monetary value for them.
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