Hollywood Hiring Cyber Hitmen To Combat Piracy

[thegreathuntingdolphin]

My point, in short, is that the digital distribution method is inherently flawed. We need to be somehow paying collectively for the creation of anything that can be distributed at zero cost, rather than trying to pay for the distribution itself.

It is not inherently flawed; it is flawed because people abuse it and think they have a right to something just because it costs next to nothing to reproduce. There cannot be collective paying for the creation of digital goods. It would have to been done internationally since anything can be shared anywhere. Who collects? Who participates? Why would anyone participate (ie why would you pay for it if you know you can still get it for free?)? Who decides what is made? Who actually makes the stuff? I would never participate in some weird collective creativity - I am not a mass consumer of most media anyways. Most of the worlds population isn't. You would never be able to force anyone to help pay for the creation of goods.

 

[palladin9479]

HACK THE PLANET!

Sorry had to say that. This will not end well, the people behind these servers are typically very very good at hacking and getting around things, that is why their running a torrent site. I wonder how long till the retaliation strike on Hollywood?

Bot nets are very common across the world. The US is rather unique in that everyone use's their PC's at home for the majority of their internet use. Most other countries, especially in Asia use internet cafe's filled with cheap commodity PC's. Hackers are constantly infecting those systems with zombie programs. Because the PC room business's don't make much money, their version of a administrator is a HS grad who knows facebook and a little bit of HTML. The mercenary hackers will just utilize those bot-nets to DDoS a target site. Their difficult to block because you have ten's of thousands of connections from multiple countries mixed in with real traffic.