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Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by eurasiantiger on Friday September 03, 2021 @01:21AM (#28400651)
You intentionally conflate seeders with torrent sites. These are not the same people. Seeders do not get money from torrent sites. Torrent sites do not host content, they do not engage in piracy any more than a phonebook engages in doxxing. They run ads simply to cover hosting the site itself.

If someone is trapping us in a bubble, it is the streaming sites who limit content access by geographical location.

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Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by johnchristopher on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:17AM (#28403769)
You deliberately ignore my main point that piracy massively promotes mass media.

I don't see Star Wars or Game of Thrones in need of any free advertising given by piracy, that's a weird argument to make.

Frankly, I am just moving on from this topic on HN. Piracy good, netflix bad, got it.

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