Comments on: Will The Chinese BitTorrent Crackdown Boost Criminals?

By: Brudda

Brudda — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:19:18 +0000

I’m sure nobody will ever read this but…
China is in Asia, where I live. A huge majority of Asians don’t have access to high-speed internet because of the high cost. I think many don’t even own a computer! I see a tremendous amount of locals using internet shops. These take-downs will hurt the upper echelon of Chinese society, but have no relevance to the working man. The reason pirated CDs and DVDs are so prevalent in Asia is that they can be played on a machine that costs $15.00 + TV cost.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:09:12 +0000

@28 – Honestly. Almost every pirate out there does not download and then buy. In fact it’s very rare, I’d say even less than 1% of all downloaders.

There is a reason it’s called Piracy, anyone who’s watch Pirates of the Caribbean “take what you can, give nothing back”. That is EXACTLY what happens, sure you “share your download” but you don’t give anything back to the author in terms of cold hard cash (which is what anyone would want for their hard work).

You wouldn’t work your ass off to get nothing in return all your life. Why should you do that upon the content authors. It’s unjust. But I’m hypocritical here, I’m just as guilty as any other downloader.

Fair enough if you don’t want to give money to labels, but don’t ram a stake in the heart of the beast, that heart is the artists keeping the labels alive.

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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:16:48 +0000

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By: this is messed up

this is messed up — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:03:44 +0000

DUDE This is what makes us file sharers criminals, and we don’t sell are CONTENT WE SHARE !!! MAFIA and BRien NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS !! Why Sell when you can share, sell!! “i can say from a file shares point” of ViEW is Wrong!! Even thought we Share we still give credit to the author by not SELLING his work, but sharing it and show people how great it is, so they later buy if its reallly good! REMEMBER THIS DON’T GET IT WRONG!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:54:37 +0000

@15 “torrenting with dht is so much simpler, hassle free and quick, i find DHT magnets faster than trackers anyway.”

wow, lrn2torrent. you must be doing something very, very wrong. Even for a public tracker user this is a joke.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:51:10 +0000

I must say it’s extremely amusing to read the commenters saying there something wrong with commercial piracy and completely ignoring the fact that most (all?) public bittorrent sites make a profit off advertising.

You do realise that TPB was going to be sold for 8,000,000 euros which would indicate that this much is being made, profit every year at least?

Its silly to tarnish commercial pirates with this aspersion and completely and hypocritically ignore your own source for getting torrents for being a profit-making enterprise which they certainly are.

By: ET

ET — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:58:03 +0000

i think its a token gesture by the chinese.

http://www.epictorrents.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:28:09 +0000

@23 – Really depends on where you are in China. I’m in Beijing and my download speed is quite decent, usually doesn’t take more than 15~20 mins to download a new episode of TV show. I do have to agree with the cheap dvd’s though, so many of these “Generic Western Name” DVD shops, and @ $8 each it’s just bang for bucks.