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> take the attempt to make torrenting/pirating illegal. Look how that turned out. 95+% of people don't use torrenting/pirating. That worked out fine. Not great

• shlant 5y ago
  > 95+% of people don't use torrenting/pirating. That worked out fine. Not great, but it's not the total failure you make it out to be. Have any data to back that up? I do: "More than a third of music consumers still pirate music." "In 2016, 57 million Americans were still pirating music in one form or another." "Illegally uploading or downloading copyrighted materials takes up nearly 24% of the bandwidth used in North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific" "57% of computer uses in the Asia Pacific and Central/Eastern Europe regions confess to having pirated software at least once." https://dataprot.net/statistics/piracy-statistics/ https://dataprot.net/statistics/piracy-statistics/ > No, but it would add more friction if you did not have a choice of legal exchanges "legal" in this sense means very little 1. because they are already doing something illegal so why would they care what interface they use? and 2. Making a site "illegal" in one country is very easy to get around - or else would you have to essentially advocate for a Great Firewall (which is still pretty easily circumvented)