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Re:Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blo... by overcast on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:46PM (#21019267)
If there were two identical torrent services, with the same content, except one you had to pay, what percentage of people would choose the pay site?
Re:Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blo... by lolc on Thursday September 19, 2019 @08:10PM (#21022041)
A few confused people would pay. But why should anybody pay if the service is the same?

If on the other hand one service paid the authors for licenses, curated the content, offered consistently good availability, performance, and convenience, and was without malware, I guess a fair share of people would pay. In fact a lot of people do pay for exactly these reasons.