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File Hosting Service Hotfile Sues Warner Bros. For...
I can understand non-commercial piracy, but these download sites are evil parasites. It's a clever business model, though.
0xbadcafebee
on Sept 13, 2011
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Bandwidth costs money. Hosting costs money. They can't just let hundreds of thousands of people download gigabytes at a time at >5Mbps for free. Peer to peer networks don't have huge resource drains on anything but the bandwidth of ISPs.
wmf
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I'm not suggesting that they should operate for free; I'm suggesting that they should not operate at all. They're basically monetizing piracy.
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