Comments on: Feds shut down BitTorrent hub

Homeland Security agents target site where versions of the new "Star Wars" movie were found last weekend.

I think we're losing track of the main idea ...

Regardless of what everybody thinks of the US government, it is still illegal to distribute copyrighted works without paying for them.

To all of those who are ranting against what the government is doing, how would you like it if I said you are probably one of those who downloaded the movie?

How would you like it if you spent a lot of personal time creating something, be it a movie, book, story, comic book, song, whatever, and were really proud of what you had created? Then say, someone posted it on the internet and offered it to anyone who wanted it? Yeah, the movie companies, etc., are getting rich off of us. But that is the whole idea behind capitalism and supply and demand. When the demand for the movie goes up, so do the financial proceeds of the companies that created it. What if said companies said that they weren't going to make any more movies because they weren't profitable? I guess people would insult or accuse them of whatever they could to make the companies look bad because they wouldn't have any more good movies to go to (and then steal?)

And of course, the government is going to enforce the copyright infringement acts. Last time I checked, they were LAWS, which are enforced by the GOVERNMENT.

Quit ranting about the "evil government" who is just trying to keep people from stealing works that other people have put a lot of time and effort into to make them enjoyable for people.

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This is really pointless

I have seen this trend many times and if they still havent learned by now I guess they never will. I wrote a letter to my states governor way back in the days of napster defending file sharing and the reasons why they shouldnt consider it that big of a deal. For one technology is a big part of why piracy and downloading have gotten out of hand, and another reason why it will never seize. Give you a few examples. Remember when the DVD became available to the public. It was far superior to VHS and seemingly copy proof. Well then they release DVD drives in computers and that sort of becomes the catalyst for people to copy the dvd onto there hard drives. Well at the time only a few cd burners were available and this made it somewhat impossible to make an exact copy of a dvd but the image could be put on multiple cds. But it wasnt to long that they decided to release dvd burners. Its funny you flip through multiple channels and see these shop at home deals that literally sell computers with the main emphasis on the fact that you can make back up copies of your home movies. Do they honeslty think people are gonna be that honorable when they can cimply rent a dvd and copy it. Which on that note theres even programs that manufacturers make available as well. Now recently Dell has decided to release computers with Blu Ray burners. Hmmm does this seem odd conisdering this falls on the heels of the PS3 and the fact that the system uses Blu Ray technology. Now secondly they make the knowledge available to anyone. You see commercials all the time for courses for MIT or any other computer course virtually teaching people all the ins and outs of technology. Well there is a lot more i could say but just had to say a few words.