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DVDs, Blu-rays will carry two unskippable government warnings. Paying customers always lose? Thanks Ant.

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Re: Morning Tech Bits

May 10, 2012, 23:41

jdreyer

eRe4s3r wrote on May 10, 2012, 21:32:
I feel like I should answer to that properly, because nobody did so far

The point isn't that these necessarily have a debilitating effect for everybody, just that there IS a cost. It's not free. Consider that Netflix accounts for more bandwidth than any of the pirating going on. There are good reasons for that. In many ways it's superior to pirating, in other ways it's inferior. It's just incorrect to call torrenting "free".




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