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Genuinely curious, if nobody at all is making any advertising money from it, and hosting costs are decentralized (even if that concept is fraught in practice),

• riffic 4y ago
  perhaps copyright owners could be more willing to share their content if they had a place they could do so from, and could also monetize to their hearts content. this would effectively cut Google out of the rent-seeking loop.
• Barrin92 4y ago
  Here in Germany torrent users have always been pretty aggressively pursued. The most common way is for copyright holders to upload their own content, collect IPs, sent out mass infringement notices and collect a few hundred bucks per case. There's an actual industry around it. Unless you're in a jurisdiction where that stuff isn't illegal I think the answer is, yes.
  • leobg 4y ago
    True. It’s disgusting. Do you know whether this kind of thing is still being done, now that we have DSGVO?