“You cannot stop a black market except by legalizing it. Period. End of story.”

So you’re free and clear, then? Nobody to be concerned about proud digital larceny? (I’ve actually been trying to set the BOP number to “Ragg Mopp” by the Ames Brothers, but I’m not sure whether they were really Zionists.)

“Boris, hunny, a smackdown will only hurt them more. It will be a PR nightmare that would leave a very bitter taste in a lot of people. Greedy corporation vs the poor working class family.”

The poor working-class Bittorrent family presents a public relations “nightmare”?

“What dream world are you livng in Boris? Pirated porn had a smackdown last year in the UK from a US company. It ended up costing them heaps of moula and guess what, perverts still download porn illegally. No effect.”

I’m not familiar with the smackdown to which you refer. I also don’t know what it has to do with my assertion that most people aren’t entirely clear as to how exposed they are when it comes to public trackers. Similarly, I’m not sure what you mean by “perverts.” It’s true that child pornographers seem to be busted a couple of times a month in my neck of the woods. Perhaps in my “dream world” this is “no effect.” Would it advance your position if it weren’t?

What dream world are you livng in Boris? Pirated porn had a smackdown last year in the UK from a US company. It ended up costing them heaps of moula and guess what, perverts still download porn illegally. No effect.

Look at Napsta, they won the fight there, but lost the war. It will be the same with the TV industry.

The more they crack down, the more they will lose.

Smack-downs? Hah! They’ve been trying that for years now, and guess what? Zero effect, plus they’ve lost at least as many cases as they’ve won and the publicity has been universally negative.

You cannot stop a black market except by legalizing it. Period. End of story.

“1. You cannot possibly win against all torrent sites, or even uploaded content to various file hosts.”

Perhaps not. On the other hand, it’s not clear that users of public trackers are generally aware that their addresses are entirely in the open. And a few smackdowns sometimes go a long way.

Piss myself laughing!

1. You cannot possibly win against all torrent sites, or even uploaded content to various file hosts.
2. NBC has nothing worth stealing.
3. Another waste of money for a position that is essentially useless, way to go saving money there NBC.
4. With all that money that needs to go into this, would it just be more prudent to leave things as they are, thus saving time and resources or are they that spooked by the recession?

The best things in life are free.