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<blockquote data-quote="vivek.krishnan" data-source="post: 1581664" data-attributes="member: 33237"><p>Actually, one might think that in the view of the closure of MU without SOPA/PIPA, there would have been no need for the latter in the first place. But, the difference between the current laws and SOPA/PIPA is that under the latter, several newer restrictions like search engines removing links from their search queries and DNS redirects would become more prominent. So ensure that the death of SOPA/PIPA was needed.</p><p></p><p>By shutting down MU, the US thinks it will send out a strong anti piracy signal to the rest of the world. However, in most of the cases, it has tried to arm twist many of the governments into doing what it wants. By means of banning imports from those countries OR complete embargoes. An example in point is Spain. Another point is Russia.</p><p></p><p>But the fact is that cyber lockers could be used for legal purposes too! Many of the free apps for any OS are usually hosted on such sites so that there is no burden on the authors site. Ditto for custom ROM's for various phones, like Android, Windows Mobile etc.... And lets not forget drivers for our beloved Windows.....</p><p></p><p>In the case of the free apps and ROM's, I am sure many will agree that it would be downloaded several times, maybe not as much as copyright content, but a sizable figure none the less.</p><p></p><p>The first issue with piracy that the MAFIAA and others take into consideration is that each content pirated is both theft and a lost sale. There is no valid reasoning for this for several reasons. Firstly, in the age of digital content, in order to make the extra copy, there is no extra cost involved as in physical content. Secondly, the fact that it is a lost sale is of utmost stupidity! If anyone could not buy to the item, say books OR music, we would either lend it or not buy it at all, rather listen to it on the radio/TV in the case of music. Thirdly, pricing is another sore point. In case of digital downloads, pricing should be more down to earth and not similar to those of the CD's. Finally, in case of Movies/TV serials, there should not be any difference between local/regional availability and international availability.</p><p></p><p>IMO, the future of cyberlockers is very bleak as it is practically very difficult to monitor what content is uploaded to them each time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vivek.krishnan, post: 1581664, member: 33237"] Actually, one might think that in the view of the closure of MU without SOPA/PIPA, there would have been no need for the latter in the first place. But, the difference between the current laws and SOPA/PIPA is that under the latter, several newer restrictions like search engines removing links from their search queries and DNS redirects would become more prominent. So ensure that the death of SOPA/PIPA was needed. By shutting down MU, the US thinks it will send out a strong anti piracy signal to the rest of the world. However, in most of the cases, it has tried to arm twist many of the governments into doing what it wants. By means of banning imports from those countries OR complete embargoes. An example in point is Spain. Another point is Russia. But the fact is that cyber lockers could be used for legal purposes too! Many of the free apps for any OS are usually hosted on such sites so that there is no burden on the authors site. Ditto for custom ROM's for various phones, like Android, Windows Mobile etc.... And lets not forget drivers for our beloved Windows..... In the case of the free apps and ROM's, I am sure many will agree that it would be downloaded several times, maybe not as much as copyright content, but a sizable figure none the less. The first issue with piracy that the MAFIAA and others take into consideration is that each content pirated is both theft and a lost sale. There is no valid reasoning for this for several reasons. Firstly, in the age of digital content, in order to make the extra copy, there is no extra cost involved as in physical content. Secondly, the fact that it is a lost sale is of utmost stupidity! If anyone could not buy to the item, say books OR music, we would either lend it or not buy it at all, rather listen to it on the radio/TV in the case of music. Thirdly, pricing is another sore point. In case of digital downloads, pricing should be more down to earth and not similar to those of the CD's. Finally, in case of Movies/TV serials, there should not be any difference between local/regional availability and international availability. IMO, the future of cyberlockers is very bleak as it is practically very difficult to monitor what content is uploaded to them each time. [/QUOTE]
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